Weather balloon colour?

[multiweb]

The other night I was setting up around 6:00pm starting polar alignment and was looking at Alpha Rigil Kent with a 8x50mm reticulated finder scope, centering the star, so it's a fairly wide field. In a matter of seconds I saw a bright red balloon going across the whole field from west to east. I thought wow, funny, first immediate reaction was to get off the finder scope and look at the star naked eye. Couldn't see a thing so it must have been pretty high. The only thing I can think of is a weather balloon of some sort? But are they red? :shrug:

[Kevnool]

White is a good guess.
Cheers Kev.

[Sonia]

WHite is the usual colour of Weather Balloons.

[Barrykgerdes]

I haven't launched one in 40 years but they used to be an off white colour. I had a couple to play with including the old transmitters (valves in those days). While I repaired the receiver for HMAS Albatross.

Barry

[multiweb]

Ok. Maybe it was just a high altitude party balloon then ...
:whistle: ... :drink::evil: