StratoCat<p>Stunning images of the journey of the Sunrise III telescope taken by IRIS-2 a video and imaging instrument built by a Spanish team of enthusiastic amateur astronomers, engineers, and technicians. </p><p>The balloon-borne telescope traveled from Sweden to Canada more than 6,500 km at an altitude of about 40 km in six days.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKWAjiNBPxo" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=CKWAjiNBPxo</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Sunrise3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sunrise3</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SunriseIII" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SunriseIII</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Balloon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Balloon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Telescope" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Telescope</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Heliophysics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Heliophysics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Near" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Near</span></a> Space <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Kiruna" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kiruna</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NASA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NASA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ESRANGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ESRANGE</span></a></p>