Astronaut Scientific Debriefings, 1962-1963

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(Conversation inaudible)
Schir~a - I used to carry my little star chart slide rule thing
around with me .
Roman - Alternatively, there are some (star) clusters - we l l, if
it ' s the Pleiades, it would be well enough defined and you wouldn't
confuse it - there are some clusters in a star field which · at· firs t
glance give you the same haziness that you get from a cluster like
the Pl eiades .
Cameron - It ' s the wrong di rection, of course.
Roman - Well, but he is down in the Scorpio region if you think of it .
Schirra - One of those things I do recall very vividly was that I
.talke d about Aldebaran and it just couldn't have been there at t he
time I ....
Gill = O, well maybe you didn ' t have the Pleiades then.
Schirra - I know it wasn't . It wasn't the Pleiades .
Gill - Because you ' ve got Orion here.
Orion, the Pleiades and
Aldebaran go nicely together.
Schirra - They sure do, _but they shouldn't be there.
fill!. - But those were the wrong ones . (Laughter) They can't be there .
Dunkelman - I think Voas corrected that at that one time.
You see
Aldebaran wasn ' t there .
Schirra - Yes, this is the liability you get into if you don't really
know your attitude; with this star chart you can sweep out a whole
new segment of the sky .
O' Keefe = Why can't you have seen Aldebaran and these other things?
Were they above the horizon?