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Homebrew Space photography

September 4, 2007 | Links

Ever fancied taking photographs from space? One of my friends was recently telling me about how he was going to take photos with a camera suspended from a kite… but this takes things to a whole other level.

The basic recipe is:

  1. 1 x small helium weather balloon
  2. 1 x digital camera with interval shots
  3. 1 x small parachute, and a GPS tracker

And what do you get (after a whole bunch of attempts)? Something like this…

Homebrew Space photography

and even this

Homebrew Space photography

You can see even more photos over at the projects homepage. I’m envious - the photos look great - personally I rather like a lot of the pictures as the balloon is passing through the outer parts of the atmosphere.

Thanks to Geekdad and Wired for pointing this out to me.

Comments »

  1. 1. Tony
    September 5, 2007

    That’s really cool, but aren’t there some regulations against randomly flying objects at such altitudes?

  2. 2. Chris Lodge
    September 5, 2007

    I stumbled across this recently - absolutely mazing photos.

  3. 3. Ben
    September 6, 2007

    Tony - I must admit I had wondered about that too, not sure what nearby aircraft would have thought of it.

    Chris - tis indeed :)

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