Retyped the QPR draft text on the TRAP III system, and got it coordinated by Ed Chatterton & Dr. McNamara at 3 PM; I then left the original on ELE’s desk, as he wasn’t there. He stopped by my office a little later to show me PA 1709, a HAC document that has tables of equipment characteristics for a variety of BMRS installations — ARIS, AVCO/RAD a/c, GR DC-6, the KC-135 & the Trap III.
Had a call from Ev Schowengardt who wanted to know if I have any spectral films — Frank McNamara mentioned me! Of course I haven’t, but mentioned that AVCO & GE probably have some. I sent him a copy of the Kwaj trip report.
Ret’d a 4″ x 6″ x 16′ timber to Buchanan’s and traded it for 2 – 2″ x 6″ x 16′ pcs for JCH’s swing in the back yard. Hope I can get it put up soon.
Started to put together a set of 1:62,500 maps of the 20 July 1963 eclipse path across eastern central Maine.
Went in to the Museum of Science to the workshop mtg. of the ATM/Maksutov Section. Met Jim Gagen, Paul Valleli, Chester Cook, Walter Singer, and a Harvard grad student in Chemistry with his EE friend. The latter two have worked out a transistorized mount drive with a photomultiplier tube as a sensor; it looks quite ingenious. I joined the ATM — at the season’s end — so I could get in on the 20 July trip to Cadillac Mt. to photo the eclipse. Had some discussions w/ Walter Singer re: mechanical design details of his mount, in particular the declination drive. This business needs some servo theory applied to it.
Wrote to Jim Knight re: the sextant.