Re: ATM Focal plane strobe

[Dwight Elvey <elvey@hal.com>]

"Howard Banich" <hbanich@teleport.com> wrote:
> 
> I'm not certain, but recall that the strobing was somewhere around 30 blinks
> per second, the same rate that the pulsar rotates, and the strobing devices
> were tunable to be able to match the rate precisely. Bob Bond and Dan
> Petersen made the two devices, and I think we all came away from the effort
> thinking we just needed more aperture.

Hi
 If you could see the pulsar without the shutter, you should have
been able to see it with. In fact, you should be able to see
it better. The background light is reduced but the light from
the pular shouldn't be reduced as much. This all depends on the
ratio of light to dark of the pular, though.
Dwight