mfborman Videos

Launch of Mike Borman's PML Small Endeavor with CPR recovery and onboard Booster Vision Gearcam video camera. The first part of the video shows the launch from a nearby tripod mounted Sony Mobile HD Snap Camera followed by the video captured by the camera onboard the rocket itself. The rocket motor used was an Aerotech H180W. The onboard altimeter deployed the drogue parachute early at only 660 feet due to the altimeter bay not being sealed well (o-ring slipped out of place). The main chute ...

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Public Missiles Callisto rocket flying on an Aerotech G64W reloadable motor with a Booster Vision Gear CAM DVR on board taking the video. Having the camera and the already installed mirror housing attached to the side of the tube apparently introduced some spin to the rocket! The rocket was flown at the monthly meeting/sport launch of Launch Crue, NAR section 519, in Holland Indiana. More pictures and videos on my website : www.mborman.org

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Video recorded 09/13/2009 by a Booster Vision camera transmitter on board Mike Borman's PML Callisto Camera Rocket flown on an Aerotech G64W composite motor reload. Flight took place at the monthly sport launch in Holland, Indiana of Launch Crue, NAR Section 519, website: www.launchcrue.org . The camera shifted in the payload bay after the parachute was deployed, partly blocking the view.

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Pleiades Star Cluster (M45) captured with an Astrovid Stellacam 3 camera attached to a Televue 85mm refractor on a Losmandy G11 mount on March 29, 2009.

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Opening Event Of The Evansville (Indiana) Astronomical Society's 100 Hours Of Astronomy. Mike Borman's Stellacam 3 video camera was connected to a Televue 85mm refractor pointed at the Pleiades Star Cluster. A video projector was used to project the cluster onto a movie screen. The Pleiades are 400 light years away, so the light we see tonight left there about the time Galileo first pointed a telescope at the night sky. Pictures from the other events can be found at the EAS website ...

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Onboard rocket video from Mike Borman's PML Callisto rocket flying on an Aerotech G64W-7 rocket motor. Launched from Launch Crue's flying field in Holland, Indiana. The delay on this flight was a bit too long, and the rocket nearly crashed before deploying the parachute. The only damage was a muddy nose cone! ;-)

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Ring Nebula (M57) through Mike Borman's 18" Obsession Telescope with Servocat drive system. Taken with a Stellacam 3 integrating video camera using a 2X Televue Big Barlow. Video was taken at Dolan Lake in southern Illinois.

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Saturn through Scott Conner's 18" Obsession telescope. Taken with an Astrovid Stellacam 3 video camera.

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Video of the Moon through Scott Conner's 18" Obsession with Servocat drive. Video taken with an Astrovid Stellacam 3.

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Mike Borman's PML Callisto Rocket Onboard Video Flight, May 4, 2008, at Launch Crue's May Regional Contest in Holland, Indiana. Rocket motor was an Aerotech G64W composite reload.

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