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.

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Project Sunbyte: The Telescope

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&nbsp;student team from across the University of Sheffield. Find out more at&nbsp;http://sunbyte.group.shef.ac.uk/Music: "Isochronal Rapture"&nbsp;courtesy of AYUSP -&nbsp; https://soundcloud.com/ayuspmusic

Project SunbYte: An Overview

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&nbsp;student team from across the University of Sheffield.&nbsp;Find out how the team got on at the final stage of the project when they visited Sweden to launch their telescope into&nbsp;the earth's stratosphere along with other student projects from around Europe.&nbsp;Music is Star Eyes by urpleactus&nbsp;- licensed under a Creative Commons CC BY 3.0 license.&nbsp;

Project SunbYte: Launching into the stratosphere

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.