Amazing Amateur Photos!

[Downlinerz2]

   I found this by accident.  I think it is amazing and I would love to try it!!!  An amateur photographer, Robert Harrison, launched a balloon and camera to 21 miles altitude and got such good pics NASA is amazed.  Link:
  
 http://www.metro.co.uk/news/818988-amateur-photographers-amazing-space-shots-using-a-balloon

   Here is one picture;

[paleoguy]

Wow!  That is an awesome pic.  I'd like to know the details of his 'flight', as in balloon size, camera, tracking device to recover, etc.  There's a club around here that takes those pix using model rockets...but not nearly that high.

[Downlinerz2]

Wow!  That is an awesome pic.  I'd like to know the details of his 'flight', as in balloon size, camera, tracking device to recover, etc.  There's a club around here that takes those pix using model rockets...but not nearly that high.

    Sorry about the link not being active.  It was when I previewed it.  Check out the link and there is some description of how he did it.

[ocala]

What I don't understand is how this camera keeps working in the harsh conditions of the upper atmosphere. Up where the jets fly at 35K it's about 50 below zero so where these pics are from is more then twice that so I'm guessing 100-150 below? Also the solar radiation from the sun should probably destroy  any internal components.
Maybe I'm missing something here.

[Cienega32]

That's amazing!

I chuckled at this part: ‘Nasa heard what was happening and wanted to know how I’d done it so cheaply,’

[Downlinerz2]

    Found this on Youtube.  Some more info on the technique he used.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfHRM2YSl0s

[Downlinerz2]

       Here is what I was looking for.  He has a website.  Must be some good info here on his technique.

    http://www.robertharrison.org/icarus/wordpress/