Weather balloon bursting at 115,466 feet

This video shows a weather balloon bursting at the end of its flight to gather weather data for the National Weather Service. The burst occurred on 12 June 2022 at 8:55:35pm local time (13 June 2022 at 00:55:35 UTC). Leading up to and following the burst is a montage of several flights at different magnifications. All of the balloons were launched by NWS Atlanta and were carrying the Graw DFM-17 radiosonde.

Equipment used in this video includes a Canon VIXIA HF G50 and a Canon EOS 6D DSLR attached to a Celestron 8-inch Schmidt-Cassegrain Telescope with and without a 3x barlow lens.

Tracking of the weather balloons were provided by https://sondehub.org and my own Sonde Tracker³ (https://harriscountyskywatcher.com/2022/04/17/sonde-tracker%c2%b3/).

Information about NWS weather balloon flights can be found at https://www.weather.gov/upperair/factsheet

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