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A project log for Solar Eclipse High Altitude Balloon

Boulder's makerspace, Solid State Depot, is launching a high-altitude balloon in Wyoming during the Aug 21, 2017 eclipse.

dan-julioDan Julio 08/24/2017 at 19:050 Comments

This post has photos from two Pi cameras: a side-mounted camera that recorded video and took a snapshot every 10 seconds and the LoRa timelapse camera that took a photo every minute.  It was mounted pointing up from the ground at about a 30° angle.


LoRa camera about 5 minutes after launch.

Video Pi looking at Shoshoni, WY.


Totality approaching.  Elevation is about 28,000 feet (8500 m).

Totality approaching on the ground.

Start of totality in the clouds.

Totality.

Totality ending.

Totality receding.  A jet may have been following along.

About 45,000 feet (13,700 m).  -58 F (-50 C) outside.


About 80,000 feet (25,000 m).  -12 F outside (-24 C).

The ground from near the highest point the balloon reached (94,000 feet/28,600 m).  It took about 3 1/2 hours to reach this.

Just as the parachute burst.  Decent was 27 minutes.


Just about to land.  Balloon all tangled up.

A SSDV photo received by the launch team shortly after launch.  Some packets lost.

A short video mostly showing the totality as seen by the Pi camera.

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