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HAPS-1, UMSFB1 redux
jamescanvin
post Aug 25 2008, 07:48 PM
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About the same as what I reckon. That'll be Denmark on the horizon, and on the far right not shown on Doug's overlay should be The Netherlands. Pretty much the whole North Sea there. smile.gif

I matched up the bit of East Anglia in that shot, it's the very northern tip.

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Pink lines show the ballon trajectory in the forground.

The earth really does look like Google says it does; only bluer! smile.gif


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post Aug 25 2008, 07:52 PM
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QUOTE (ElkGroveDan @ Aug 25 2008, 07:37 PM) *
Just when I thought it couldn't get any better, the image wizards step in.


I knew that if and when this worked, I would see you guys come up with every mosaic and analysis an interpretation - far quicker and far better than I could. I just tried to get the best data I could to feed the machine smile.gif

I now understand, perhaps a bit more than most, how and why Steve and Jim and Alfred and Pete do what they do. I now also can not understand, more than ever, why Europe does the opposite. But I can tell you I know EXACTLY why the ESOC guys have turned that VMC back on.


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post Aug 25 2008, 07:54 PM
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For our foreign friends, it's probably worth mentioning that The Wash ( that U shaped bay ) would appear to change a lot from altitude, as it's almost all very very shallow and produces large sand-banks at low tides. It's the venue for the story of King John's Treasure ( probably false ).

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post Aug 25 2008, 08:40 PM
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Ah I know a bit about The Wash and St. John's Treasure and The Fens from Louis L'amour's Sackett series. There's nothing more entertaining than historical fiction.


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post Aug 25 2008, 09:17 PM
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Fantastic stuff; the video is just hypnotic. I also wondered about some sort of weather vane to at least slow the speed of the oscillations (though no oscillation = no pan) but the risk of tangling the chute would be non-zero. Would that be the purpose of the boxkite-like affair ISTR seeing in photos of met balloons?

That dark sky and curved horizon is so, so tantalising... hmmm a quick Google turned up this report of a 100000' rockoon launch reaching "30-36 miles apogee", and the HAL5 HALO project which seems to have gone quiet in recent years(?)


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post Aug 25 2008, 09:29 PM
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Now THIS is what I always wanted from the UMSFB/HAPS-1 project - 360 degree panorama! cool.gif





Click image to go to my (never before used) blog with various sized download options.

I'll have a look for more images to try and fill in the foreground tomorrow.

Enjoy,

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post Aug 25 2008, 09:44 PM
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Oh my... this is seriously becoming APOD material ph34r.gif

The next balloon better have gyros for attitude and pointing determination so panorama stitching can be automatized. biggrin.gif


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post Aug 25 2008, 09:58 PM
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QUOTE (jamescanvin @ Aug 25 2008, 10:29 PM) *
360 degree panorama!


Get the **** out of here. That is INSANE.

QTVR of it attached:
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post Aug 25 2008, 10:48 PM
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Doug's next objective? smile.gif

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post Aug 26 2008, 12:39 AM
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Along the same lines as above. Congratulations to Doug and the HAPS-1 team. smile.gif
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post Aug 26 2008, 02:58 AM
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Here's a Photosynth of the first 70 photos (only 20% Synthy, it can't match up about half of the images) that is pretty cool once you get used to the viewer interface. It matches and stitches the images, but Photosynth unfortunately can't output a panorama or mosaic.

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post Aug 26 2008, 03:15 AM
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Added a spherically distorted and otherways modified version of the NOAA-18 image to the blank spot to try and fill in the gap:

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Blink GIF showing the modified NOAA-18 image then overlain by James Canvin's mosaic:

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(The white line in the modified NOAA18 image defines the "pig's bottom" part of East Anglia):


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Hello to the forum and congratulations...
May I ask about the complications involved to "clear" this flight ?
Is the BAA not "down with this sort of thing"...
I'm quite "undulled" as a Scotsman myself...
cheers All,
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post Aug 26 2008, 05:02 AM
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I played with some images around the horizon, lining them up and looking at the horizon to black sky transition around the mosaic:

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I think you can see some forward scattering (brighter towards sun) haze layer boundaries (indicated by black arrows). There also appears to be a definite brighter haze or upper cloud layer seen at 315 and at 45 (not shown). 'Course this is also towards the London megalopolis.

[There appears to be a darker layer towards the sun also, so I don't think these are image artifacts.]

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post Aug 26 2008, 09:59 AM
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I think I am starting to get SAS after watching the videos a few times. blink.gif

And it was still less than 1/3 of the way up to space.

Congrats on the successful mission.
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