Astronomy
Astronomy was a significant purpose for ballooning, closely linked in practice to meteorology. Balloons could be used to rise above the clouds in order to observe a rare phenomenon, such as eclipse or meteor shower.
At the conference at St. Petersburg the commander of the Spanish Balloon Corps, Don Pedro Vives y Viches, stated that he intended to organize a number of ascents for observing the total eclipse of the sun which would be visible at Burgos on August 30th, 1905, and that he was prepared to offer a seat in the car to a member of the conference. Accordingly three balloons made the ascent at Burgos on the eventful day. Vives y Viches was on board one of them and with him were a Spanish physicist and Professor Berson.[1]
Some balloonist-astronomers:
References
- ↑ Hildebrandt, 1908, Airships Past and Present, pp. 281–283.
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