Because of the bright twilight sky I had to tone down the ISO to 400 and diaphragm to F4.0. The images show the flashing behaviour very neatly, and I obtained two spectacular sinusoid brigthness curves (the second one is from the image shown):
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The flash period is definitely slightly variable, varying between 1.2 and 1.5 seconds with an average of 1.35 +/- 0.12 seconds.
With the current orbit, decay is projected for mid-August.
note added: click the 'Nanosail-D' label below to see later posts on NanoSail.
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