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- atmospheric losses
- lens effects caused by atmospheric turbulences
* atmospheric losses. The main benefit is for blue and ultra-violet (20% and more). So for the other colors, the benefit is not really awesome for amateurs...
* lens effects caused by atmospheric turbulences
* no blue sky even during the day: you could observe during the DAY.
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- more cosmic rays?
- stability is an issue and may reduce the ability to benefit from the absence of atmospheric turbulences (awesome seeing).
* more cosmic rays?
* stability is an issue and may reduce the ability to benefit from the absence of atmospheric turbulences (awesome seeing).
Given the risk of not recovering the telescope, we need a cheap telescope maybe [DIY|Do it Yourself telescopes]
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!! Balloons and blimps
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! Reading
A balloon can fly very high (50km) and is pretty safe (no explosives involved if it's helium).
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* Nicolas Regnault's PHD Thesis (in French): http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00006558/en/
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The air weighs about 1.3kg per cubic meter at sea level, so a balloon of a couple cubic meters should be enough to lift a good payload.
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Since helium is expensive, it might be tempting to use hydrogen instead.
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If a cubic meter at ground level there would be about 50 moles of dihydrogen, which would release about 50*286kJ = 15MJ if inflamed by air and require about the same energy to produce from water.
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! Reading
* Nicolas Regnault's PHD Thesis (in French): http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00006558/en/. This contains interesting background info that's quite readable
** discussions about detection of supernovae, how they are visible with regular light
** discussions on merging information from different telescopes
** discussions about the effect of atmosphere (seeing, absorption).
* [FAA rules for balloons and rockets|http://ecfr.gpoaccess.gov/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=ecfr&rgn=div5&view=text&node=14:2.0.1.3.15&idno=14]
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