I don't know if the 'monocular' is the removable optical tube of the
sextent, I'm still asking around.



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I'm not sure if you mean the sextant or not, but from the book;
"Carrying The Fire" by Mike Collins, it reads near the top of page 404
of the 1974 hardcover: ( A very good book by the way, anything by
Collins is a good book, he is a great author. )

"The sextant is a powerful optical instrument, magnifying everything it
sees twenty-eight times, but the price it pays for this magnification
is a very narrow field of view, only 1.8 degrees wide, so that it is
almost like looking down a gun barrel."

This is referring to Mike trying to locate the Apollo 11 LM on the
lunar surface, I don't think he was ever able to spot it.


Jim Oberg wrote:
Apollo CM monocular -- magnification power?

When considering what an Apollo crewmember could have
detected looking at an external object through the CM
monocular, there's one simple question I've forgotten to ask
until now. What was the magnification power of that device,
and what was its size and ease-of-handling?