Astronaut Scientific Debriefings, 1962-1963

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through the window like 2 suns or satellite......?
Did you see any multiple images,...(question partially inaudible)....X

No, no.

Could I __ a question here on the surface?

Go ahead.

I notice on the picture here and also the comet the description of the __ on the horizon in the daytime. __ around the horizon near the sun.. Was this a uniform thing __.

No. It comes out even in broad daylight. It seems to go out to a little more of a pointed area out--way out the horizon if you leaned over and look out the window way out toward the North, for instance. This would not be as broad a band as it appeared to be when we're looking back directly on the flight path, for instance.

It does appear to exist 350 degrees?

Oh yes.

Were there any appreciable irregularities in it or was it completely smooth?

Smooth. These are very--there are fuzzy edges. You don't run up like you see on the spectrum to this color and to that color. They all fade into each other like a rainbow but its a--there are no discontinuities where a yellow band was more thick than a blue band here or something like that. They all just ran out even.

Are you referring now to the sunset phenomena?

That true then too. I was speaking primarily just during broad daylight.

Do you get different colors in broad daylight other than the blues?

Just the Blues and whites during broad daylight. Yes.