Afternoon all
Ive finally had a chance to look at one of my videos of one of the passes
of the North Korean satellite KMS 3-2 and choose the pass of 15 Oct
2012 at random. Although it was quite difficult to get sharp events
- ie well defined minima and maxima an interesting pattern appears
to have emerged. At low elevations as the satellite increased
elevation there was a brightning about just over every 17 seconds
or so which would, in light of later observations, indicate a
reflection from the same face of the satellite. However as the
elevation increased the brightness variations became somewhat less
pronounced and seemed to occur roughly just a bit more than once
every 4.5 seconds - this might indicate I was seeing a reflection
from each face of the 4 sided satellite. At around culmination I got
a brightening about every 9 seconds or so which seems to indicate a
reflection from every second face. This is no doubt due to the
change in orientation of the satellite as seen by the observer.
Now I guess I had better check the other passes recorded.
Cheers
Greg
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