Filming the Cloud Chamber

Saturday we filmed radioactive particles in our cloud chamber. Seeing the subatomic particles streaking across the chamber leaving visible contrails is the easy part. Getting it to show up on video is the hard part. We are conducting a positron survey in the upper atmosphere this fall using this gear but we need to be able to record the results. We’re finally getting good, if blurry, results.
The top frame is raw, the bottom is enhanced.


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