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Stephen W. Ramsden
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Great outreach - great jazz
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Hi Stephen, how do you manage 6 telescopes, 100 kids and to fly a drone at the same time? Does the FAA even allow that kind of multitasking?
By the way was that a DJI? It's got a really nice gimble, whatever it is.
By the way was that a DJI? It's got a really nice gimble, whatever it is.
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Hi Stephen
the drones take over
the drones take over
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The use of drones is a way cool method of documenting outreach and something that appeals to the student too. What model are you using Stephen?
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Such an interesting perspective to use a drone-cam. Nice event, Stephen.
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this is the DJI Phantom 2 Vision +.
It has a 3 axis gamble and is far superior to the non-gimbaled AEE AP10 Turok that i tried out first.
lol..100 kids? try 300-1000 kids at a normal event. How do I do it? I am quite clearly obsessed with teaching science and perhaps a little mad.
The drone seems to add a great deal of excitement to the event and the kids want to be involved.
I have tried several ways to get a drone transit or a movie of the drone hovering in front of the Sun in H-Alpha or CaK but even at 1000 feet, it is far too close to the scope to get a focussed image of the drone and the Sun. I will master it somehow though.
It has a 3 axis gamble and is far superior to the non-gimbaled AEE AP10 Turok that i tried out first.
lol..100 kids? try 300-1000 kids at a normal event. How do I do it? I am quite clearly obsessed with teaching science and perhaps a little mad.
The drone seems to add a great deal of excitement to the event and the kids want to be involved.
I have tried several ways to get a drone transit or a movie of the drone hovering in front of the Sun in H-Alpha or CaK but even at 1000 feet, it is far too close to the scope to get a focussed image of the drone and the Sun. I will master it somehow though.
Stephen W. Ramsden
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Here is another video from the drone showing Atlanta from a couple blocks away from my house.
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Re: video of outreach event with drone footage
Those guys in the Faroe Islands needed a drone to get above the fog. It was a bit of a waste there otherwise. Put a drone on the checklist for the next eclipse. By 2017, Andy Lunt will have a solar drone, right Stephen?
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Hi Douglas
a perfect fake
a perfect fake
Only stardust in the wind, some fine and some less fine scopes, filters and adapters as well. Switzerland 47 N, 9 E, in the heart of EUROPE
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Now that is about the only reason I can think of for a drone I'll have one
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