Astronaut Scientific Debriefings, 1962-1963

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You might be able to try this. I didn't try it that way. You might be able to, holding your head... fix you might be able to do something like that. This would be fairly accurate. This would put it down, I think, where you could pick it off within a--our gradations on that attitude control system are fairly fine--about, I guess, three sixteenths of an inch is 10 degrees but you could pick it off to within a degree and a half or 2 degrees with pretty fair accuracy.

I notice in some of the pictures there is a second image of the sun about 10 degrees from the primary image apparently due to the 2 thicknesses of glass.

Yes. I think that's what it was from. I don't recall seeing any of those at all. I notice them in the same pictures and there was another phenomenon them in the pictures you may have noticed. In quite a number of them--I think Bob noticed it first before I had--up above the horizon some 15 or 20 degrees there appeared to be a green band go across that parallel the earth's surface. Did you notice that in the pictures? And this was in quite a number of them. And I never saw any band like that at all. I don't know whether it was actually there and just showed up on the film and I just didn't see it or couldn't see it or whether it was always when the sun was at a particular area out here and it was just a certain reflection off the window or reflection off the lens of the camera but I think we should probably take those pictures and try to analyze what angle the sun was to them as well as we possible can.

I think John is doing that right now.

Is he? Because this green band is a new one on me. I never saw that until we got the pictures and I imagine its just a reflection on the XX lens.