2017 Total Solar Eclipse footage from a near-space stratospheric balloon from goodwill Watch Video
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Description: I launched a camera-laden balloon before totality passed over Central Oregon. There were three still cameras (one being a Ricoh Theta 360) and a GoPro recording video. This is the edited video, showing launch, the shadow of totality passing, and the last 40 seconds or is the last of the footage before the battery died.nnThe payload actually landed in a 60 foot tall ponderosa near Black Butte, but the Theta and GoPro broke free during impact and landed on the ground. I hired a tree specialist in