Weather Balloon Pictures I took on Saturday

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It is really hard to tell how high we got without more info.  The balloon has a maximum altitude of 90,000, however I don't believe it got that high.  I got an email from another physics professor who says near space starts around 60,000 feet and that is where you start to see the curvature of the Earth and the black sky. So we made it at least that high and maybe more.

I've seen videos of this go really well and really bad.  One just got a brown haze, which I also got a lot of that from my ground angle. 

If you have some scouts working on this, you should have them design your payload to look like the Enterprise D.