Spherical Panoramas allow the viewer to look in any direction, as if one were standing in the center of a sphere. The Spherical Panorama does away with the photographer's single framed point of view. You are free to explore every angle and to inspect any detail of the image by zooming in and around the total sphere.
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If you would like to know more about the methods used to create these images then the following sites will guide you PanoTools
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The equipment used for photography is described here.
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A full spherical from burst point 32584m using images from GoPro camera
Above the clouds at 21.5Km in the jetstream travelling West at 54Km/Hr
This is from 6.3Km high travelling West at 29Km/Hr
Images taken during flight at 5.7Km
From around 1.5Km height
A test of SPEARS for the LOHAN flight
A first flight from Latvia
Titan One first flight
Flight from Churchill college Cambridge
This flight carried a gimbal stablised Cannon 550D camera some excellent shots.
Dave's flight has some cracking pictures taken and download during the flight. One image of Devon and Cornwall has been included in this Pano.
This flight over Belgium also sent down some SSDV images
Second flight of Stratodean across the Brecon Beacons http://www.stratodean.co.uk/ web site here
This first flight from Yorkshire soared to 38.3Kms.
This flight had a rather convoluted path!
First flight of Stratodean
Dual payload but uXABEN GPS failed
Flight over Adelaide 20130406
This flew 201304061300 to a height of 39214m
Flight path of Polish balloon SP9UBO and SR0FLY
XABEN45 flight following previous XABEN44 flight yesterday!
HABE7 was intended as a quick up down photo shoot but ......
XABEN1-44 flight details at https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/ukhas/wOk7Rtu-U4k
HELIOSS balloon & VORTEX4 cut down payload
Flight of HABANERO with PICO and POP1 flight paths over the UK.
PIE4 and PAVA - What they might have seen, but for the cloud ....
