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ITV News Volcano erupts in south Iceland & Man takes pictures from space on digital camera

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ITV News Volcano erupts in south Iceland. Man takes pictures from space on digital camera. A man in West Yorkshire has managed to snap some stunning photos of the Earth from space using a compact Canon digital camera and a hot air balloon kit that cost him just £500. Robert Harrison, of Huddersfield in West Yorkshire, constructed his space photography kit using off-the-shelf components that cost him around £500. He mounted a standard, four mega pixel Canon digital camera to a hot air balloon. The camera was hooked up to a small, Linux-based computer that was set to wake up the camera at set intervals and snap a picture. A GPS unit allowed Harrison to recover his camera when the balloon eventually came back to Earth. The resulting photos are so stunning, that NASA has apparently been in touch with Harrison to learn how he managed to capture such high quality images so cheaply. Several galleries of photos can be seen at Harrisons Flickr page, while his blog contains details of his various launches and the hardware used to construct his clever hot air balloon rig.


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  1. ecotts
    August 18th, 2010 at 13:53 | #1

    @norman4lyf I wish I had money to waste (or to risk) doing it.. :)

  2. norman4lyf
    August 18th, 2010 at 14:10 | #2

    @ecotts

    People have sent up high-altitude balloons with cameras for over a decade. It’s done, in fact, hundreds of times DAILY.

  3. MrWheezey
    August 18th, 2010 at 14:37 | #3

    @donalduck815 semi-detached, the newsreader is talking about the mans house

  4. Arrow69hunter
    August 18th, 2010 at 15:36 | #4

    @BBradshawProductions Don’t forget to add Satan is in the white house, Married to a Sheman beast, Half black half white. Says he is a christian yet took a Muslim name. ALL signs of the END!!!

  5. BBradshawProductions
    August 18th, 2010 at 16:32 | #5

    2012 is coming folks

    Volcano in Iceland
    Earthquakes in Haiti, South America, China
    Meteors in northern US and all the freaky weathers

  6. donalduck815
    August 18th, 2010 at 16:34 | #6

    whats a semi?

  7. zeesham13
    August 18th, 2010 at 17:24 | #7

    well done iceland first you lost? everyone’s money and now your volcano is disrupting everyone’s holiday.. control yourselves

  8. jacob93knott
    August 18th, 2010 at 18:22 | #8

    @BelieveandtrustJesusIt has been done before and it not that hard im thinking of doing some myself

  9. liquidflix
    August 18th, 2010 at 18:48 | #9

    @ecotts
    probably

  10. liquidflix
    August 18th, 2010 at 18:55 | #10

    classic. good work

  11. ecotts
    August 18th, 2010 at 19:48 | #11

    Give it 5 minutes there will be a new law that prevents us from seeing what’s going on up there.

    I wouldn’t mind doing this..

  12. BelieveandtrustJesus
    August 18th, 2010 at 20:16 | #12

    that guy is a genius

  13. OghamTheBold
    August 18th, 2010 at 20:46 | #13

    Classic accuracy – not £500 – £50

    Classic news – for years people have done this – there are even clubs