Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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Conrad
Yes, we kept looking over the area of Gegenschein
to see if we could see and I don't really think it
was the Gegenschein, but-­
Cooper
There was one area right almost in the immediate
area of the Gegenschein, but not quite. It was
very near that area by maybe five degrees or so
though.
There was this one area which appeared
like the Magellanic Clouds.
Conrad
Like a real small one.
Cooper
Yes, it looked like a small Magellanic Cloud.
That's really what it looked like.
I t was quite
near the area where we had been told the Gegenschein
should appear; but, then there were a couple of others
of these that similar types back over closer toward
the other of the regular Magellanic Clouds.
So,
I don't know what they were, and I didn't notice
these before on my previous flight.
These were
something that were new to me.
We saw a l ot of
planets.
We did try taking the polaroid, the two
sheet polaroid filters , and rotating them to all
different positions to see if we had circular
or linear polarity coming out of the sun.
I
tried the sun both while well up and while setting.
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