SUORET
HURON)
Project 15.2 = High spew

Photography - Time Interval Measurement -G, Felt
. L. Allen

The decision to fire «oi (Huron) at Fniwetok Atoll made it
necessary for Program 23 (UCRL) to perform the high speed photographic
time interval measurement.

2301.

The observations were made from Station

Seven Model 190 streak cameras were employed.

The time interval

between the primary anjegecondary reaction has been preliminarilymeasur-

he camera schedule, which relates
—
a
to the accompanying figure s, is given in Table 15.2-1, The figures are
contact prints of the records obtained and illustrate many interesting

details of the luminous phenomena associated with the detonation,

the

usual gamma and neutron Teller flashes are seen as is the fireball
growth in its earliest stages,
TABLE 15,2-~1 - CAMFRA SCHEDULE
Fig. No.

Writing Speed

Telescope Focal
Length

1

10.2 mys

2

15.1

*

240

3

10.4

"

4

10.5

5

5.4

6

7

COPIED/DOE

LANL RC

Slit Width
Inches Time sh

2025

3.6

*

2025

2.4

60

*

0025

3.6

#

*

240

4A

050

72

"

CO

40

*

2025

7.2

n

5.4

240

*

-050

W.4

®

60

*

025

3.6

10.3

="

60 inches

Field of
View

.

oo.

ig «

|
.

Slit vertical,

device near
lower end.
Slit horiz.,
aimed above device

.

Slit vertical

device near
- lower end,

Ro

ne 5

a 2 oo ; n

o

a

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