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Aha! There's mention of KS-120 and KS-140 on the label of the box with
switches. These were star trackers made by Kollsman for use on Hound Dog
missiles launched from B-52's:

http://www.designation-systems.net/dusrm/m-28.html

So this device would have been used to test the star tracker on these
missiles.


This page is about the MD1, a different star tracker used on the B52
itself, but it has some comments from a technician about the use of a
star simulator with the astro tracker:

http://prc68.com/I/MD1.shtml

"The Hound Dog missile that was carried on the B-52 also used a smaller
version of the astro tracker.  Sometimes when the about 2 foot diameter
MD-1 astro tracker was ordered, the one foot diameter astro tracker for
the Hound Dog would be delivered.

There was a star simulator that had 3 "stars" in known locations that
could be used for testing the MD-1 system.  When testing at night mag 1
stars were used since they were easier to lock onto."

Luc

On 15/03/2018 10:00, Sean C wrote:
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> image? The aperture seems to match a periscopic sextant's.
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