I finally had some success taking in-flight photos from my SuperHorizon rocket on July 19. Here’s the rocket in flight:
SuperHorizon, on Aerotech H210T
Below are the images it collected in flight.
Click on any image for full-size version, including EXIF data. Warning: files are big.
Last pre-flight image
First image - ascending. Blurring is from motion.
Looking straight down over the infamous powerlines. Somewhere close to apogee.
More power lines.
Farm equipment. This was one of several severely underexposed images that had to be "saved" in Photoshop. I'm not sure why this happens - maybe when the camera swings toward the sun it gets confused?
Best image of the flight - rotated and cropped a little, that's all. I can see my car in the parking lot, and kids on the soccer field. (Click to see full-rez image.)
Nice sharp image of the houses on the hill.
Coming down. Landing site is next to the truck.
Last flight image.
Below you can see the electronics sled with the Pentax Optio S6 camera that took the images. The shutter is triggered via IR from the PIC – the thing taped onto the camera is an IR LED. (I buy digicams on eBay with “broken screens” – they’re cheap but they still take pictures.)
Front view of camera. E-sled is actually upside down - camera goes toward nose cone.
Side view - shows mounting arragment for camera (note 1/4"-20 screw into tripod mount). The PIC (18LF2620) and GPS are on the other side of the sled.
Finally, here’s a .KML file of the flight for Google Earth: sh_july19
Download that and double-click it, and you’ll see a 3D plot of the flight – something like this:
Google Earth snapshot