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Robert Eno wrote [NavList 1946]


>I wonder if you would mind describing the Link A-12 illumination system for
>me?

Thanks for pointing out the interesting subtlety of the Mk IX bubble
illumination system, so that the centre of the bubble is not
illuminated. That had escaped me.

As Paul Hirose pointed out, the A-12 does not have this
sophistication. There is just a bulb in front of the translucent
window of the bubble chamber. The brightness of the bulb is adjusted
with a rheostat. While on the subject, it is worth pointing out that
it seems to be important that the bulb has just a straight piece of
wire as a filament, not a coiled wire filament as in most bulbs. Only
the bulbs with the straight piece of wire seem to vary evenly in
intensity as you turn the rheostat.

Despite the fact that the centre of the bubble is illuminated on the
A-12, I have had no trouble in shooting Polaris, which is a 2nd magnitude star.

Geoffrey Kolbe




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