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 x small helium weather balloon
- 1 x digital camera with interval shots
- 1 x small parachute, and a GPS tracker
And what do you get (after a whole bunch of attempts)? Something like this…
and even this
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.
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Comments »
September 5, 2007
That’s really cool, but aren’t there some regulations against randomly flying objects at such altitudes?
September 5, 2007
I stumbled across this recently - absolutely mazing photos.
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