Project Sunbyte: Revolutionary Solar Telescope

Watch members of the Project Sunbyte student team describe how the telescope works. Find out the differences between Sunbyte and a ground-based telescope, discover how Sunbyte is able to track the sun using a Raspberry Pi and watch an overview of the electronic control system.

Music is Luvly by Joakim Karud  http://youtube.com/joakimkarud

The SunbYte project aims to revolutionise solar telescope technology by creating a low cost telescope using novel manufacturing techniques such as 3D printing, Arduino controllers and Raspberry Pi computers.

The Sunbyte project team is made up of an interdisciplinary student team from across the University of Sheffield. Find out more at http://sunbyte.group.shef.ac.uk/

Music: "Isochronal Rapture" courtesy of AYUSP -  https://soundcloud.com/ayuspmusic

The SunbYte project aims to revolutionise solar telescope technology by creating a low cost telescope using novel manufacturing techniques such as 3D printing, Arduino controllers and Raspberry Pi computers.

Watch as the team uses a high altitude balloon, provided by the REXUS/BEXUS programme to lift our solar telescope above the interference of Earth’s lower atmosphere to observe the Sun.

The Sunbyte project team is made up of an interdisciplinary student team from across the University of Sheffield. 

Find out how the team got on at the final stage of the project when they visited Sweden to launch their telescope into the earth's stratosphere along with other student projects from around Europe. 

Music is Star Eyes by urpleactus - licensed under a Creative Commons CC BY 3.0 license. 

The Sheffield University Nova Balloon Lifted Solar Telescope (SunbYte) is a high-altitude balloon experiment devised and run largely by students at the University of Sheffield. Watch to find out a little more about the project, and to find out how students have been working with local school children.