Thanks, George, both your objections may be true (I know you can view your own movies/videos in 3D with a dark grey glass in front of one eye - if you photographed right or left from a moving vehicle, or moved the camera or rotated the target object) But it is also not unreasonable that the effect was synodic, since the FltSatCom has a slow rotation, and was ascending towards culmination all the time. /Björn > >> 5/ The graph of 1/6 period indicates a synodic effect: 63.486s initially, 63.570 >> s mostly, 63.630s at the end? >> > >Regarding increasing periods for a slow flasher: Could it be that as the flashes become >fainter, they are noticed 0.1 seconds later? maybe the flash lasts for 0.2 seconds but >as it becomes fainter, it is visually shorter and shorter pulse width. Or maybe the eye >reacts more slowly to fainter flashes. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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