New Brunswick Volunteers Build Flying Telescope to See Total Eclipse Above the Clouds

New Brunswick Volunteers Build Flying Telescope to See Total Eclipse Above the Clouds
David Hunter poses with the payload for the Balloon Solar Eclipse Project in Florenceville-Bristol, N.B., on Mar. 4. The Canadian Press/David Hunter, Balloon Solar Eclipse Project
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Early next month, millions of Canadians will gaze skyward to witness a total solar eclipse. But some stand to be disappointed as clouds get in the way.

David Hunter plans to have an unobstructed view, and he’s inviting others to join him. The retired medical physicist in western New Brunswick has led a group of volunteers to build a sun-tracking telescope that will be hoisted aloft by a weather balloon on the afternoon of April 8.