Astronaut Scientific Debriefings, 1962-1963

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Cooper:
No. It was just a bit :further to the l.e:f't than I thought
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Bill: More toward'. the· center of' the window?
Cooper:
Noo
More slight]¥ to the le:f't of' the window.
I coul.d have been
yawed ·off a l.ittl.e.
I thought the pattern of the l.ittl.e town, .it was by
was rea.l.ly more distinctive than the l.ight. , If' I hadn't "imown _the light was
there I 'WOul.dn_'t have sel.ected it in preference to· l.ots of other lights I saw'
on t he ground,--•if' it hadh't been for the l.ittl.e horseshoe-shape towno
,Bill Armstrong:
What brightness did you see at thi's attitude?
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I woul.d sq it,was about between third and fourth magnitude
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Bill:
AB you continued to obse;rve it· did Y9U notice ~t dimming?,,
Cooper:
Noo
I coul.d see it f'or se:veral. s_econds-.
One f'alicy of the ground
lights is ·that you are moying on the ground pretty rapidlyo_ You don't have
mariy seconds to ·observe any ·:f'ixed points op. the groundo It's moving right
on past you and gone fair]¥. rapid]¥. . ·of' course as it gets on .out it gets dimmer
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•,Question:· / Havet yOU .&J;IY idea how~_lo~· you ·~
able -to ob,serve it?