Our primary risk for no-go conditions for Saturday remains the strong surface winds expected. Today's forecast is for sustained winds of about 25 mph with...
Still not good for Saturday. Rain and thunderstorms are likely off and on through the day Saturday as the system approaches, and some of them could be ...
Due to 35-mph surface winds and rain/thunderstorms forecast for the region Saturday, NSTAR will not be flying at the Central Plains Severe Weather Symposium...
We will be launching a 1200 gram balloon with a 2.5 payload from the KWU football field in Salina KS this evening, 8 pm local. APRS on 144.39 with an ID of...
Having several balloons airborne and watching it in Google Earth is pretty cool. Go to aprs.fi and start Google Earth from there, then move your eye point to...
A synopsis of the KWU night flight. This was the 4th flight of the physics and math club working towards personal best of altitude and gaining experience in...
As I've been spending some time making sure my photos are backed up across several machines, I've been using Picasa to organize and upload the NSTAR-related...
Many of you may have received this from other lists, but I wanted to make sure the rest got this. I had several e-mail interactions with Mike over the past...
[Forwarded from the ANSR 'Ballooning' list - 73 de Mark N9XTN] ================================================================= (Received from his friend, Ron...
NSTAR Flight 09-A is still on for Saturday, May 2nd at 0800 CDT from a launch site near Omaha. Main APRS: N9XTN-11 on 144.36 MHz Backup APRS: N9XTN-12 on...
Weather forecasts for next weekend are still showing a lot of variation. Some are showing showers/thunderstorms, others are showing nice conditions. No strong...
The forecast for Saturday is for a 140-mph jet to be overhead, with a resulting chase distance of 150 miles. For a launch near Valley, NE this would put the...
Due to strong jet stream winds forecast for Saturday, NSTAR Flight 09-A and the paired NearSys flight are postponed to Sunday, May 3rd at 0900 CDT (1400 UTC). ...
Still on track for Sunday. It appears there may be some rain to our south early Sunday morning, but even that ends around sunrise. Clearing skies and light...
Our forecast track still points to a landing near or west of Villisca. Based on this, our launch site is officially Gretna HS. Most of us will arrive about...
Winds in the area have all dropped to less than 4 mph. Expecting very light winds well into the morning tomorrow. There are a few showers on radar passing...
Typing this on my Blackberry as we head home... The NSTAR simplex repeater coax broke - it was trailing an HT antenna. This led to very poor range (<10 mi)....
http://picasaweb.google.com/mconner1/NSTAR09AAerialPhotos Several of these photos may be a bit 'overprocessed'. I used Picasa's "I'm Feeling Lucky" processing...
Hey Mark, I always kick the haze out with a little PhotoShopping. It definitely is unnatural, but who wants to look at a dull monochromatic image when a little...
Hi Rick, When I was only taking 40 shots per flight using a APS camera, I could spend a fair amount of time color-tweaking the images. But when I'm shooting...
For those of you up (very) early Sunday morning, there will be a hot-air balloon flight (N31802, aka Euphoria Grande) to 33,000 ft in the Omaha area piloted by...
Photos from Rich Jaworski's hot-air balloon flight this morning: http://picasaweb.google.com/mconner1/JaworskiFlight17May2009 Landing was a few miles northwest...
Anyone know of a source that has current wind direction and speed (surface to jet stream levels +..)in South America? Specifically Lima Peru. Thanks in...
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