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Photographic coronagraph, Skylab particulate experiment T025

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Abstract

A photographic coronagraph, built to monitor Skylab’s extravehicular contamination, is described. This versatile instrument was used to observe the earth’s vertical aerosol distribution and Comet Kohoutek (1973f) near perihelion. Although originally designed for deployment from the solar airlock, the instrument was modified for EVA operation when the airlock was rendered unusable. The results of the observations made in four EVA’s were almost completely ruined by the failure of a Skylab operational camera used with the coronagraph. Nevertheless, an aerosol layer at 48 km was discovered in the southern hemisphere from the few useful photographs.

© 1977 Optical Society of America

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