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The experimental time-lapse images of the breakup phenomenon of a chargeddroplet (diameter ~100-300 micro-m) levitated in an electrodynamic (ED) balanceis reported. During the breakup process, a levitated charged droplet undergoesevaporation leading to a reduction in droplet size and increase in thecorresponding surface charge density. As the surface charge density reaches toa critical value, known as the Rayleigh limit, the droplet undergoes breakup byforming a jet which further ejects highly charged progeny droplets. All thesuccessive events of the droplet breakup process such as drop deformation,breakup, and relaxation of the drop back to spherical shape after ejection ofprogeny droplets have been recorded using the high-speed camera at 1.3 hundredthousand frames per second. The droplet is observed to eject 3-5 progenydroplets from a jet indicating end pinching mode of breakup. The jet is thenobserved to relax back after ejecting 31% of the total charge and ~3\% of thetotal mass. A suitable theory is provided to supplement the experimentalobservations, and a reasonable agreement is observed. Additionally, the theoryis extended for the prediction of total mass loss and the entire lifetime of acharged droplet.

Experimental observation of end-pinching in the Rayleigh breakup of an electrodynamically levitated charged droplet