Nova 8 / HAPS-D, Last minute bolt-on - sunrise from altitude |
Nova 8 / HAPS-D, Last minute bolt-on - sunrise from altitude |
Aug 28 2008, 11:36 AM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14434 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
"We're launching tomorrow morning' says Ed.
"Shame I can't make it, I have to be at work" says I. "At 3 am" says Ed "Hmmm" says I Long story short - hopefully a reflight of the HAPS1 A560 tomorrow - at dawn - with recovery in time for me to get back to Leicester in time for work. Ed will fill you in on the rest of the payload. He's an engineer - I'm just a temperamental artist. Obviously - anyone with half a brain will be fast asleep, so may not be any/many live updates. Possibly live tracking, maybe uStream while we're setting up. The real problem is the toxicology involved in staying up all night with caffeine based beverages. (For people just finding this thread... Movies from the Nova 8 camera http://vimeo.com/1628664 Ascent Part 1 http://vimeo.com/1628493 Ascent Part 2 http://vimeo.com/1628497 Ascent Part 3 http://vimeo.com/1628414 Descent Movies from the HAPS-D camera http://vimeo.com/1628947 Ascent Part 1 http://vimeo.com/1628809 Ascent Part 2 http://vimeo.com/1628810 Ascent Part 3 http://vimeo.com/1626812 Descent http://vimeo.com/1628991 All of the still images at 6fps from the HAPS-D camera http://vimeo.com/1629086 All of the still images at 6fps from the Nova 8 camera Download the MOV from bottom right on these - and you can essentially scrub your way thru all the images at quite a reasonable resolution. |
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Aug 29 2008, 11:14 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 204 Joined: 20-November 05 From: Mare Desiderii Member No.: 563 |
I'm creating a thumbnail interface to the images from the HAPS camera, here. This might make it easier to spot the gems without having to download ginormous images.
It's fetching on the fly and rate-limited in an attempt not to lock everyone out and trash Doug's hosting -- so it'll take a while to finish (currently it's mostly furniture ). (Doug, hope that's OK.) |
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Aug 30 2008, 08:52 AM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14434 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
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Aug 30 2008, 09:48 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 53 Joined: 10-September 05 Member No.: 492 |
Whilst I understand the issue of "stamp collectors" downloading everything and taking bandwidth from those who are going to do something useful with the images, JTN's index page does offer a different, and I think very interesting, perspective on this really exciting mission.
Scrolling down the page of thumbnails give a fascinating narrative of the whole mission, from set-up to landfall, in a way that selected images do not. In a strange way it is a little reminiscent of http://www.tenbyten.org. It also enabled me to find one or two images of pre-dawn contrails against the pre-dawn sky. I suppose not surprising given that a major airway runs across the south of Essex from the VOR at Clacton towards Heathrow - albeit at a rather lower altitude - but a nice catch all the same. Really well done to all involved -can't wait to the next flight! Rob |
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Aug 30 2008, 10:18 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14434 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
a fascinating narrative of the whole mission, This is why I made this : http://vimeo.com/1628991 Note, in the bottom right corner, you can download a MOV so you can scrub back and forth thru a med-res version of every still. To be honest, I resent the very existence of the setup stills, they're eating SD card capacity before we launch and I could turn up the length of movies and number of stills if the payload didn't have to be prepared 30 mins or so before the launch. Hence, I don't include them in the movie versions. |
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