My first HAB flight a success!

[nebulosity. (Jo)]

G'day everyone.

Just recovered my high altitude balloon payload and am pretty stoked with some of the images it captured

I'll give you more details soon after I've finished putting together a video of the flight.

Anyway here are a few quick pics, sorry I haven't edited them properly yet.

More soon.

Cheers
Jo

[pluto (Hugh)]

That is so awesome!!
Congratulations, and thanks for posting!!

[traveller (Bo)]

[Ric]

Excellent work Jo.

Looking forward to the video.

Cheers

[Saturn%5 (Graeme)]

Great Stuff Jo.

[PeterEde (Peter)]

Impressive

[Nico13 (Ken)]

Yep, pretty good stuff.
Looking forward to seeing more.

[alistairsam]

Very impressive Jo.
How do you go about obtaining permits for these flights?

Cheers
Alistair

[Octane (Humayun)]

You have got to be happy with that! Well done!

H

[Pinwheel (Doug)]

Great photos however I think your wide angle lens is exaggerating the earths curvature. In some photos you can clearly see paddocks & buildings but the altitude is far to low for that amount of curve & black space above. Do you have any altitude data to compare with the photos?

Great effort & how did you get the camera back?

[nebulosity. (Jo)]

Originally Posted by Pinwheel

Great photos however I think your wide angle lens is exaggerating the earths curvature. In some photos you can clearly see paddocks & buildings but the altitude is far to low for that amount of curve & black space above. Do you have any altitude data to compare with the photos?

Great effort & how did you get the camera back?

Yes these photos were taken with a GoPro and medium Fov so do have a bit more curvature than actual, I have still images (haven't gone through them all yet) from a proper camera that properly show the curvature.

The maximum hight it got to, was 33,500m (111,000ft)

Thanks for your comments everyone, it was great fun to do. I'll give you all the details on the video.

Cheers
Jo

Edit, The sixth image correctly shows the genuine curvature at 50,000ft (that's as long as my still camera lasted, the GoPro recorded right to 111,000 and all the way back down)

[gaa_ian (Ian)]

That's Awesome Jo ! I used to go Hanggliding around Cecil plains in the mid 1980's , but I certainly never got that high, thankfully :-)

[FlashDrive (Poppy)]

... what can I say ........brilliant...

Col.....

[Larryp (Laurie)]

Impressive!

[multiweb (Marc)]

This is so cool.

[julianh72 (Julian)]

Brilliant! Well done!

Were you carrying any sort of instrument package? (E.g. air pressure, temperature, etc), or just the cameras?

[DavidTrap (David)]

Very impressive!

DT

[scagman (John)]

Your pics look great, also looking forward to the video.

[GraemeT (Graeme)]

Absolutely fantastic outcome, Jo. Congratulations!

[lazjen (Chris)]

Great stuff - look forward to the video as well.