Solar Eclipse High altitude footage! - April 2024 solar eclipse! 

It has happened, Wesley and I were part of SEDS TNTech in college and did around 10 balloons over the years. We once had to trek through Daniel Boone national forest to find one. A good slingshot with fishing weights and fishing line to set a stronger line works wonders for getting these out of trees. We had that kit in the car just in case, but we got lucky this time.

No, that was edited in for clickbait.

baited what a shame.

You, like the creators, both missed the eclipse from the balloon. Great attemot but poor execution. A 360 camera or one angled higher wouldve caught the eclipse as they intended. Same thing happened to a couple who wanted to fly as passengers during the eclipse only to realize the actual eclipse was above them and they could only see the umbra on the earth's surface. Still cool but not as cool as seeing totality directly

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@@drmiteshtrivedi Has there been any other Video or Videos who successfully Videoed The SUN's ECLISPED TOTALITY from a High Rise BALLON in FLIGHT?

A future refinement to this might include using a 360 camera of some kind as well as possibly a modest weight to stabilize it with (this is so that the balloon, looking up, isn't wobbling all over the place relative to the 360 camera's vantage point in the event of turbulence), a larger balloon to make up for the weight, and possibly a longer tether to shrink how much real estate the balloon hogs in the footage. I'm guessing if it's successful, it would result in 360 footage that the user can pan around pretty easily. Still, this is exceptional and a great starting point.

Is it 2027? U need to launch the balloon 2 hours before totality which is right before partial

@@telnetDaMan the one in Egypt is in 2027

Lol, i mostly flew previously out of cookeville tn. I know your pain. I got pretty good with a slingshot.

No

The problem i've had is keeping cameras running through the entire flight. The temperature drops cause internal camera batteries voltages to drop hard. Leading to premature ending of clips, if not entire clips corrupted. I've had luck with runcams before and this is there latest 4k runcam 6 (which is super cheap, which was a big plus!). Its internal battery can be removed and it can be ran entirely from an external battery, the battery I selected is a more temperature stable 3 cell 18650 lion which can be stowed in the styrofoam cooler to lock in its own heat and provide more consistent voltage (higher is better, the camera is ok with 4 to 20 volts, starting with a 5 volt battery is asking for trouble, starting with 12.6 volts gives a lot of room for voltage sag). I think I could take apart an insta 360 and try to make it stable to -40 degrees, but Im not sure you can even record on those for more than a few hours anyway due to software limitations. Also, just out of my budget for this time. Maybe next time, and now that I own some ballooning equipment and I might just try to mod a 360 cam when I see one I can trust and fly it not during an eclipse!

​@@elijahvivio1996 interesting, yes, i didn't consider those issues. I had an insta360 at my eclipse location cut-out prematurely. And that was without worrying about time & temperatures involved. So i appreciate your descriptions of the challenges faced.

Link? Id love to see it.

What do you mean. This video honestly just made me a flat earther! You do realize the camera made it curved up and down right? So when it was still it had no curve. It's flat bro!

​Hahahaha I hope you're kidding ​@@ROBYMSCJ

Explain what? It's called a fish eye lens…

That's the balloon popping. It gets to be about 10 times the size it was at launch as it rises in the atmosphere due to the lower atmospheric pressure. The reliability of the balloon popping is actually essential to a well planned balloon mission.

The unique view of the eclipse from that altitude is the shadow of the umbra, something not readily apparent, or at least not to this degree, from terrestrial positions. Views from the ground provide virtually the same perspective of the eclipse as what you get from altitude. Elijah made the right call.

@@Pics2FlicksDennis I think seeing the eclipse above most of the atmosphere would be a much clearer image which is what I would have liked to have seen.

@@VideoManDan , I don't argue that the view of the eclipse from altitude may have been marginally clearer. Plus, if you're still in the troposphere, which goes up to around 7 miles high, which clearly this camera was bellow, the optical and clarity benefits of being a little higher are minimal. Unless the view from the ground was obscured by clouds, and your elevated camera could get above those clouds, I still think the benefit of the unique view of the umbra dictates that the elevated camera focus on that, and not the view of the eclipse. EVERYBODY got views of the eclipse, including me, some of them spectacular including (with no level of humility) mine. I wish I had thought to bring my drone, to ALSO capture the view of the moon's shadow on the Earth was something few people captured. It's all about answering the question: "Do you want to get a view of something everybody (as in millions of viewers) got that might be a little better, or do you want to get something almost nobody got?". My answer, as a professional photographer, would be the latter. We'll just have to agree to disagree.

There are satellites and jets that showed that ​view @@VideoManDan. I very much appreciate the view showcased in this video. Awesome stuff!

@@VideoManDan , ok, mate, I'm growing weary of repeating myself. The "atmosphere" is THIRTY MILES THICK. The benefit of getting a few hundred, or even a few thousand feet above ground (if you have FAA clearance) is SO small, I guarantee you will not be able to tell. The ONLY time it may make sense is if you are clouded over, and if your method of flying (balloon, drone) can get you above the clouds, which again is subject to the FAA's rules and regs. Peace out.

Balloon popping at burst altitude! Its huge when that happens, around 30 feet in diameter right before burst.

He is sure? LOL, I clearly saw the curvature of the earth there, but the alienated flat earth believers will say it's "Cgi" 🤣