Apollo Image Products., Various mosaics, composites and other imagery. |
Apollo Image Products., Various mosaics, composites and other imagery. |
May 26 2008, 07:06 AM
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Lord Of The Uranian Rings Group: Members Posts: 798 Joined: 18-July 05 From: Plymouth, UK Member No.: 437 |
I've decided to start a new thread dedicated to the Apollo program, and I shall start the ball rolling by posting an assortment of mosaics and other images that I have been working on during the past few months.
LM ASCENT MOSAICS: Apollo 14: Turtle Rock and Station H are clearly visible, as are the tracks leading up to the ALSEP. Compare to the lunar orbiter view: -------------------- |
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Aug 3 2008, 02:11 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3419 Joined: 9-February 04 From: Minneapolis, MN, USA Member No.: 15 |
Excellent work, Don! I know that the Apollo 12 crew was frustrated over their attempts to capture that eclipse. In fact, here is a short excerpt from the post-flight debriefing on the subject:
CONRAD: We want to talk about the solar eclipse and the fact that we were all caught with our pants down. We should have had good camera settings and film available for that because it was certainly a spectacular sight. GORDON: I feel very strongly about this. I think that someone, the crew as much as anyone, really dropped the ball on this. We knew this was going to occur before the flight and we mentioned it. The people who are interested in this kind of thing, if there was any interest, were very remiss in not planning further for this particular event. To us, it was one of the most spectacular things we saw throughout the entire flight. I'm sure there's obviously some scientific value in this type of thing. However, the reaction in this regard was virtually nil. In conjunction with this the response of the people on the ground, at the time that we reported this, was extremely poor. The crew was left on their own entirely to come up with guesses on camera settings, films, and film speeds. Repeated inquiries to the ground took a considerable length of time before any information was gotten out of the ground at all as to what type of film, what exposure, and what time settings to use on the cameras. It was a very poorly handled phenomenon we all knew about before flight. -the other Doug -------------------- “The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.” -Mark Twain
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