Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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on the La Palma Island , and very distinctive; how­
ever, one can get confused if there LS any l ittle
bit of cloud cover at the isl ands yo·1 1r e l ooking
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at .
There are approximately five or six islands
out in this group and with some of t:1e scattered
cloud conditions, vou can get on the wrong island
there fairly readil y, particularly i .: part of one
island , where partially covered by cl ouds , maybe
just a point--you can very readily g1~t the wrong
po.int .
However, I think we got the :~ight point
all right without any problem.
And :: think the
lighting condi tions were very excel l nnt , really,
except for the scattered clouds on the water down
there; the lighting conditions themsdves were good
for these pictures .
And on day 5, 10 hours 25 min­
utes and 2 seconds , we got Sequence :)08 which was
the one we had tried the first day and had had
cloud cover.
That was magazine 4 , e>:posure no . 62
taken at 1/250 at f/9 . 5 90° with about a 20° yaw
right, and there again that was the 1,oint near
Cape Rhir near Agadir and the commenis that I had
to make on this one are that there are three points
going down this same general land mass that are
neither one a great deal more distinctive than the
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