Re: Nanosail-D flash pattern, and images of yesterday

From: Marco Langbroek (marco.langbroek@wanadoo.nl)
Date: Thu Aug 18 2011 - 13:49:27 UTC

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    Op 18-8-2011 14:17, Marco Langbroek schreef:
    >> Op 17-8-2011 13:49, alain.figer@club-internet.fr schreef:
    >>
    >> In all the photos, a same flashpattern seems rather obvious : 1 bright maximum
    >> followed by 2 secondary maxima.
     >
    >
    > With only two exceptions (where secondary peaks are missing/not pronounced), if
    > I take each third peak in the sequence, I get a period of 0.73 +- 0.03 seconds,
    > exactly what you found.
    >
    [snip]
    > secondary maxima tend to have intervals of about 0.27s and 0.46s
    
    Looking at it closely, and trying some fits, it looks like that in my 14 Aug 
    image #9 brightness diagram, all peaks (main and secondary/tertiary) fit an 
    approximate ~0.24s to ~0.25s periodicity.
    
    The main peaks at 0.73s (all pronounced) are in most instances followed by a 
    peak ~0.24s later (other than in Alain's images, where they are more clearly 
    secondary, sometimes also quite pronounced), and in a few cases also preceeded 
    by a peak ~0.24s earlier. Where the latter is missing, you get a ~0.48 s gap.
    
    See diagram here:
    http://sattrackcam.blogspot.com/2011/08/nanosail-d-pattern-in-chaos.html
    
    - Marco
    
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