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lights above Toledo, Ohio; geometrical embryo? and circular objects
Topic Started: Apr 27 2010, 03:36 PM (7,366 Views)
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It's just pixelation in the image i would think. The lights we used are LED's, many many LED's in fact hardwired into a 6 pack of rechargeable AA batteries. Sometime we can drop them down a 100ft or more from the all black kites carrying them and the Kites then become invisible in the dark sky. The group is often moved around by the local police and fire departments as they get swamped with UFO calls when they flew in Perrysburg. I've been in Florida for the past few year but I know they are still at it as they visit in the winter to fly here.

They can often be found behind the Meijer's off of I-75 on Friday and Saturday nights. Though as i said in the summer they roam around the whole area to take aerial photos and art. The kite are up to 20ft wide or more and often fly between 500 and 700ft high. They are custom designed to carry heavy weight in very light winds and often can fly on night people would call windless as there is often 2 or 3 mph winds at height.
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Ah, OK, think I'm to the heart of the matter now. Night time flying. Here is some information about their night time flying.

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We often wonder what speed the Sport Kites are flying. In the daytime we could fly the kites by two sticks and time them with a video camera. The problem is the sticks are near the ground and kites are flying slower by the ground.

But now with the LEDs on the wing tips and a digital camera we can calculate the speed at night in the turns, in a climb or in a dive. The flashing LEDs provide the time and the distance in the pictures.

Speed = Distance/Time

First we will calculate the feet in a second and then change that to Miles per Hour.

To change feet a second to Mph we multiply by 60 for minutes then by 60 for hours. Then divide by 5280 for miles.

We took some pictures with a digital camera on a tripod and posted them on the ps1kites.com web site. Most of the pictures we took on September 14, 2007 were 10 seconds and you can tell that by the number before the S in the name of the picture. We may take some pictures at 3.2 seconds so the last number is the tenth of a second.

6541r08F100S The first number is the picture number 6541 and the small r is our way of saying we resized the picture to fit on the web. The kite is 08 foot(F) and we sometimes use 10 and 15 foot kites as well. Last is the exposure time which in this case was 10.0 seconds(S).

The kite used in picture 6541r08F100S has lights on the wing tips and the lights are about 8 foot apart. The LED lights flash back and forth at the same rate and the rate can be adjusted with a small pot. We set the flash rate and are not sure of the rate till we count the flashes in the picture. We counted 69 flashes in ten seconds. That makes the flash rate 6.9 flashes in one second.

Now let us look at the picture and note that the kite speed changes, but the space between the lights is the same or near the same. The distance between the lights is 8 feet. We can measure distance in pixels. The picture is just one big graph paper when we look at the pixels and all the numbers they have like 283, 341. The first number is the left to right and the second number is the up to down number. With trigonometry we can use distance formulas on the pixels.

Remember side A squared plus side B squared equals side C squared in right triangles. In the 3, 4, 5 triangle we have 3*3=9, 4*4=16, 9+16= 25 and the square root 25 is 5.

We picked some points on picture 6542r08F100S and they are 324, 399 and 351, 399. The points are on each wing tip and 8 foot across. We picked the points because we will not need trig to see how many points to 8 foot. We just subtract 351- 324 = 27 points to 8 foot. So 27/8 = 3.375 points to a foot.

Now let's try to get the speed of the kite as it dove down, we pick the point 329, 364 and 324, 399. Remember we counted 69 flashes to 10 seconds and that worked out to 6.9 flashes a second. We picked the points were the light just turned on one of the wing tips. Now what is the speed? Well how much did it move in one flash 329 - 324 = 5 and 399 - 364 = 35. It moved 5 points left and 35 points down. Now we use the trig 5 * 5 = 25 and 35 * 35 = 1225 and add the sides 25 + 1225 = 1250 take the square root 35.35 points. We know the 3.375 points to one foot, so we divide 35.35 / 3.375 = 10.48 feet in one flash. So we take 10.48 feet times 6.9 flashed for one second and we get 10.48 * 6.9 = 72 feet in a second. Now to calculate Mph, 72 * 60 = 4320 feet a minute and 4320 * 60 = 259,200 feet in one hour and 259,200 / 5280 = 49 Mph.

http://www.ps1kites.com/pix/ClassRoom/0Sample.txt


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Otherwise than that here are a few day pictures and links to other indexes. I think a person could identify a kite with LED lights being flown around in the night sky.

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http://www.ps1kites.com/pix/2009/0320/
http://www.ps1kites.com/pix/Equipment/
http://www.ps1kites.com/pix/2010/0710%20GM%20Rok/
http://www.ps1kites.com/pix/2010/0319%20Gold%20Medal/
http://www.ps1kites.com/pix/2010/
http://www.ps1kites.com/pix/ClassRoom/
http://www.ps1kites.com/pix/
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welcome nightflyer nice try but this is not your psikite/s its very visible at night and it looks nothing like the photos posted by another of our forum regulars...... you can see clear shots of it at night on this same thread from the beginning.
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This was taken at sunset, so it wasn't quite dark, and so I maxed out the blues, as per robin's tutorial.

From there, I followed the rest of the steps and at first I didn't see anything and felt discouraged but decided if I let it rest a bit and take my time, then maybe I could see something... and, I wasn't disappointed.

Here are what images I could pick out. Whether etheric images or actual bodies I don't know but what I find is interesting.

Images from this crop, further magnified:
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At the right going down I see what looks like a face
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Followed by what looks like the profile of a girls head with flowing, wavy blonde hair
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Beneath which looks like a being with a duck bill climbing up and... happy
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Those were pretty much outer right parameter of the main body of the object


These are from the bottom right inside.


I think I was off on my outlining of the middle figure. I was unsure and looking again it puts me more in mind of a fat individual sitting there rather than winged or anything.
To the left there looks like a possible individual.
To the right, however, seems to be distinct, a man near a doorway, black belt and boots.
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I didn't think this one needed outlining
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This pretty much occupies the full area to the left of this object.
Looks like a mad scientist that would totally go over in a video game :blink:
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thanks for all your efforts guys and girls.... definitely not psi-kites..... almost like the crew of LEXX if you've ever seen that sci-fi series
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