Half way into space
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We spent a few days in the Black Rock Desert at Balls 27, the wild west event of high power rockets. People push the limits with their experimental rockets. There are experimental home-brew motors, speed and altitude record setting attempts, multiple stages and engine clusters. The general rule of thumb is to try to launch projects that are not legal anywhere else. Teams arrive from Japan, Austria, Argentina, and other countries.
This particular "ThreeCarbYen" rocket is built by Jim Jarvis, and has three stages, with a N5800 motor for the first stage, a N1560 for the second, and a M1401 for the third. The second stage has active stabilization. The sustainer (3rd stage) reached about 175K feet (53 km) altitude, learned after analyzing the data - the GPS stops working at about 160,000 feet! The reached altitude is half way into space - space begins at the Karman line at an altitude of 100 km.
I took this photo with a 600mm lens from a safe distance of 2 miles away. You can see some distortion caused by pockets of air that changes density quickly on hot days.
I processed a balanced HDR photo from a RAW exposure, and carefully adjusted the color balance and curves. I welcome and appreciate constructive feedback.
-- ƒ/6.7, 600 mm, 1/500 sec, ISO 100, Sony A7 II, Tamron SP 150-600mm f/5-6.3, HDR, 1 RAW exposure, _DSC3424_hdr1bal1h.jpg
-- CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, © Peter Thoeny, Quality HDR Photography
Half way into space
Thank you for visiting - ❤ with gratitude! Fave if you like it, add comments below, like the Facebook page, order beautiful HDR prints at qualityHDR.com.
We spent a few days in the Black Rock Desert at Balls 27, the wild west event of high power rockets. People push the limits with their experimental rockets. There are experimental home-brew motors, speed and altitude record setting attempts, multiple stages and engine clusters. The general rule of thumb is to try to launch projects that are not legal anywhere else. Teams arrive from Japan, Austria, Argentina, and other countries.
This particular "ThreeCarbYen" rocket is built by Jim Jarvis, and has three stages, with a N5800 motor for the first stage, a N1560 for the second, and a M1401 for the third. The second stage has active stabilization. The sustainer (3rd stage) reached about 175K feet (53 km) altitude, learned after analyzing the data - the GPS stops working at about 160,000 feet! The reached altitude is half way into space - space begins at the Karman line at an altitude of 100 km.
I took this photo with a 600mm lens from a safe distance of 2 miles away. You can see some distortion caused by pockets of air that changes density quickly on hot days.
I processed a balanced HDR photo from a RAW exposure, and carefully adjusted the color balance and curves. I welcome and appreciate constructive feedback.
-- ƒ/6.7, 600 mm, 1/500 sec, ISO 100, Sony A7 II, Tamron SP 150-600mm f/5-6.3, HDR, 1 RAW exposure, _DSC3424_hdr1bal1h.jpg
-- CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, © Peter Thoeny, Quality HDR Photography