Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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FCSD Rep
Cooper
Everytime while setting, it seemed to have linear
polarity, somewhat vertical , but I never could pin
this down to anything well- defined.
While the
sun was up, well into the sky, I could rotate
the filters and rotate them within themselves to
any degree and couldn't discern anything but
equal polarity coming out of them in all directions.
It didn't seem to have any linearity to it at all
or any well-defined specific axis of linearity.
never could see anything from the sun other than
with the polaroid filter in.
After the sun had set,
you could see quite a glow with the polaroid filter
in, but at the same time you could see it without the
polaroid, too.
A couple of times when we got the
Zodiacal light quite strongly-­
Can you see the stars down through this airglow?
Oh yes. You can see the stars right on down through
the airglow.
The Gemini window is much cleaner
in general , apparently, or much better visibility
out of it and night visibility than the Mercury
window, because we were seeing down to about
seventh magnitude of stars.
We saw the clusters
in Orion and we could see seven stars in the belt
of Orion.
We saw a great many stars which we couldn' t
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