Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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daylight.
How about you, Ed? Were you able to
see any stars?
Yes.
I called them out a few times.
You did
have to maneuver just ,as carefully-­
That ' s right .
You had to be just exactly in the
right spot.
Let ' s go into the magnitude of the stars.
We
had set ourselves with the Corona Australis
as a kind of calibrator for us , and this was
composed primarily of fifth order stars.
That
was very clear, and I could see without a:ny
difficulty stars
of lower magnitude
than that.
I could see, without question, stars
to the seventh magnitude.
And that ' s exactly the same magnitude I would
guess.
You could probably see th~m down to a
magnitude of seven.
Now, another thing, though , was that the sky
wasn ' t any more f ull of stars to me there than
it is when I ' m flying at about 40 000 feet
on a real dar k night .
No, as a matter of f act , it didn't really seem to
be as full of stars.
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