I plotted your flash measurements, and found them to be very accurate. The spread is +-0.04 s, of which at least +-0.03 s is due to timing resolution and/or image frequency/exposure time. Using 4.702 s period, it is obvious that the first and last flash is part of a main sequence, of which only flash #4 is missing. The secondary maxima lack the last five flashes. (Graph 92-85A.gif sent to yK) Plotting 2.351 s period you can see that the secondary maxima are about .04 s after the mid-period, getting slightly closer by the end. (92-85A2.gif ) The 4.4 s you refer to (old observation?) is very reasonable, assuming it also used the full period, or the secondaries couldn't be seen. My (attempt of) PPAS report was made with the help of PPASinp.exe v.2, slightly edited: 92- 85 A 06-03-04 15:24:36.67YK 89.4 0.04 19 4.702 F'FF'sm /Björn > > Another late-night slow crawler.... I have molniya 3-43 or 92-85A in > the vicinity but the trouble is i did not get 4.4s- i have 2.35 sec > instead ( 58.99/25). This communication sat had umbrella-like > arrangement of solar panels -wind-mills like... > http://nightevents.blogspot.com/2006/03/molniya.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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