Gemini 4 Experiment Debriefing, 1967

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in the proce sing - must be in the lens under the film.
The - down
at the bottom part kind of duplicates and lets magnitude look on top and
that's really not fair.
It doesn't reflect down and what you see is only
on top.
Did you see any difference between moonsets and moonrises?
No, I dido 't .
Did you see any (classing) .......... of t he moon?
The elongation that you see?
No.
I didn't.
I didn 't notice any.
I thought the interesting thing, too, about the moon is that clarity - t hat
I
you see it ' s quite clear whe·n you l ook at it here, but also it just looked
l i ke a little silver globule going down.
It just goes right down.
You
have no scanning or anything associated with it.
And no ....... , either.
That 's right, it goes right down.
And also, your vieWing of the stars
beyond my cpmment on this earlier doing this. It doesn't obscure your
vieWing - the moon being up there doesn 't particularly bother you as far
as the ( stars?) ...... .
Then you could always tell where the horizon was because of the stars
which you know appeared.
And then the airglow.
Could you also tell from the stars? ...... sort of a supplemental picture
of the horizon from the stars?