BALLOON - HIGH ALTITUDE

High altitude balloon attempt for later this year. Most of the parts are ready to go, just waiting on a few camera's for interval still images, Eric might have his video camera ready, Jason will provide the GPS and tracking, and I will get my WHISTLE dog tracker in the payload box.

Parts list and checklist is all ready, just some fine tuning.

Update 03/24/2016 - Nikon Coolpix camera came in, a $20 bid on EBAY with 2 GB flashcard. Tested the camera out today for interval stills - 30 sec intervals - and had around 450 images in around 3 hours time-span. This camera performs great and has 12 MEGAPIXELS and the images are like 4 - 5 MB each.. Really cool camera.

Other camera that I have is also a Nikon S9 but is 7 MEGAPIXELS, performs also great with over 250 images on that battery in around 2 + hours.. All will be great.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/621034424680780/

http://weather.uwyo.edu/upperair/balloon_traj.html = Trajectory calculator

http://predict.habhub.org/

https://www.highaltitudescience.com/pages/tutorials

http://tools.highaltitudescience.com/# = Balloon performance calculator

http://askzephyr.com/product/219-cubic-foot-steel-helium-cylinder/

http://nearsys.com/

http://www.ncnearspace.org/

http://www.arhab.org/hab_launch_list.php

http://www.arhab.org/

http://weatherfaqs.org.uk/book/export/html/174 = ISA pressure settings

http://www.calctool.org/CALC/phys/default/pres_at_alt = pressure calc.

http://www.physicalgeography.net/fundamentals/7b.html