11.3.6

Timing Reference

One-bindred-cycle time saarks were placed on filo records in the Mitchell
ca=eras and cne-thousani-cycle Cining was supplied to all other high-speed
Cameras and the spectrogragh ip the Jodostoo islam) camera station.

A sispie

Cine sack generator was used with the Mitchell casera (slow-speed) aboard che
USS Boxer.

It provided one tive sark approximately every 7 seconds.

This

Caoera was used during the Orange event only.
Syne marks were placed oa all fila records in the Fastax cameras during
the Teak and Orange events.

These were supplied through Cwo sync sark genera-

tors, each triggered by a photocell which was acruated by che first light of
the detonation.

During calibrarion of these generators, a delay of approxi-

mately 60 psec was experienced between the first visible light from an electronic flash lamp and actual lighting of the séon flow Le=p.
11.3.7

Filters

Metal interference filters were used for the narrow-band pass filters.
These were generally second-order filters characterizad by a width of half-

peak of 100 A and a base width of 1000 A.

With the 5000 A and 6500 & filters

it was necessary to use kratten gelatin filters to suppress unwanted bands.
Figure 11.2 shows transmission curves of the narrow-band pass filters combined
with the Wratten filters where the combinarion was used.

These curves are

measured with approximately the same angular spread (5 degrees} in che light
az was present in the field.

The so-called neutral density filters (Wratren

No. 96) were calibrated at the wavelength used.

Tabies 11.1 and 11.2 give

this effective neutral density for the filters used.

11.3.8

Fila Recording

The quantitative ceasuresent of light intensity using photographic emulsion requires establistment of known relationships berseen exposure and resulting density produced in the developed equlsion.

The reader is referred to

accepted sources such as nee sl? or Jones} for a more complete discussion of
the general problem.

A thorough discussion of fila acd camera calibration

techniques and data reduction methods for this project is given in a report
by Palser.1*

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