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STS-46 Payload Specialist Franco Malerba of the Italian Space Agency (ASI), wearing eye glasses and a headband with a penlight flashlight attached, uses a camera through a window shade covering overhead window W7 on the aft flight deck of Atlantis, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 104. Malerba is conducting the Tether Optical Phenomena (TOP) experiment. The camera is mounted on a bracket attached to the onorbit station panel A6 and is equipped with image intensifiers and special filters. Surrounding Malerba are the aft flight deck viewing window W9, aft window shades, the pilots station seat back and checklists clipped overhead. Other camera equipment, including a Hasselblad 70MM camera, also appears in the view.