AstroCam
We recently purchased a ready
to fly Astrocam. In case you are unfamiliar with the Astrocam, it is capable
of taking pictures from a camera that is mounted in the nose cone. When
the ejection charge fires a string releases the shutter and a picture is
taken. Note: The Astrocam takes pictures that need to be reversed (i.e.
viewed in a mirror) in order to see them correctly. I did not reverse or
touch-up my pictures. What you are seeing is as close
to the actual photographs as I can make them.
HAWAII PICTURES
1. Click here to see a picture
of a soccer game at Kapiolani park. The red,
yellow, and blue dots in the
photograph are soccer players. The photograph
was taken on January
3, 1999, on a B6-4 engine.
2. Click here
for a picture of Diamond Head Mountain and some of the houses
and trees surrounding Kapiolani
Park. The photograph was taken on March 5,
1999, on a C6-7 engine
3. Click here
for a picture of several of the houses, buildings, and trees
surrounding Kapiolani Park. This
photograph was taken on March 5, 1999,
on a C6-7 engine.
4. Click here
for a close-up picture of some trees and houses by Kapiolani
Park.
This photograph was taken
on March 5, 1999, on a C6-7 engine.
5. Click here
for a picture of some clouds and the top of Diamond Head
at the
bottom right. This picture
was taken on March 5, 1999, on a C6-7 engine.
6. Click here
for a picture of our flying field, some trees, hotels, and
Waikiki
Beach. I finally got a good
picture of the ocean. We cannot see the ocean
from the field as the trees and buildings
cover it up completely. This picture
was taken on March 5, 1999, on a B6-4
engine.
LOUISIANA PICTURES
1. These pictures were taken in Shreveport, Louisiana. This
one was taken on a
C6-7. The rocket was still going up
when the nose cone decided to eject and
it took a picture of the clouds.
2. This is a picture of some of the trees
and houses surrounding the field where
we launch model rockets.
3. Here is a better picture of some of the houses
that surround the field. The
blue in the picture is a swimming
pool in someone's back yard.
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