A day of experiments. We performed alignment of the instruments at porthole No. 20 in the work compartment and porthole No. 16 in the transfer compartment using stars, with the AO-1 astro-orientator and S-2 sextant, to determine the misalignment of their axes and thus understand the station’s deformation. The data are quite decent — on the order of arc minutes.

I noticed that during visual observations it’s hard to catch the moment of passing the traverse — the shortest distance to any ground object. I checked this repeatedly against characteristic landmarks, islands, and coastline features, comparing their map coordinates with the Delta navigation system’s data at that moment. The error is approximately 100 km. I observed New Zealand. This country consists of two islands separated by a strait. The northern one has a lake in its center, on whose shore stand two snow-capped volcanoes. The southern one is distinguished by its jagged coastline near the strait and a protruding landmass, around which there are beautiful light-colored water patterns.