Apollo & Life Magazine

[BazBear]

You shoulda blamed it on a coronal mass ejection! That would be a nice space-y lie excuse for a forum like this one.

But yes, you got it all fixed, thanks yet again OBM!

[onebigmonkey]

You should now find all of the editions of Life Magazine and National Geographic magazine that I possess scanned and uploaded on to my site - including the 1969 Special in full.

Some of the pdfs disappeared earlier this month for some reason - no idea why, but hopefully all the links work now.

You might also like to checkout the 'Landing Sights' section, where I have finally completed a study of Apollo video and still images in comparison with Lunar Orbiter and LRO images, the idea being to lay to rest the nonsense that 'they' used Orbiter views to create some sort of set in Area 51, or somewhere.

http://onebigmonkey.comoj.com/obm/apollo.html

[gwiz]

That's a really remarkable website, clearly a massive amount of work, many thanks.

[raven]

I am getting an 'I cannot connect' error, unfortunately when I click that link.

[onebigmonkey]

Apologies for the delay - life has been getting in the way!

The webspace provider can be a bit flakey, it's a free one. They offer a premium service but the flakiness is not convincing me to sign up for it!

Also, I noticed that they have periodic purges of any files over 5Mb in size, which is a nuisance. For this reason I've started adding dropbox links to the Life & National Geographic files as a back up.

[onebigmonkey]

I'm playing around with another examination of the photos & film, this time looking at the position of the lunar terminator during Apollo missions.

Early days, and the later, longer missions will be more interesting to work on I think:

http://onebigmonkey.comoj.com/obm/terminator.html

[Kiwi]

In case it's useful, the Spacecraft Films Apollo 16 DVD set, disc 2, has 4 minutes 36 seconds of 16mm DAC footage (possibly at 6fps) from orbit which shows the terminator at about 31 degrees west, just beyond Montes Riphaeus, so maybe near the end of the mission -- I'm not sure.

During the first three minutes it's hard to identify lunar surface features due to the lack of relief from the high sun, but between 0:13:37 and 0:14:55 it's much easier to identify small craters and the landing site as follows.  The times are approximately when the feature reaches the horizontal centreline of the screen:--

0:13:37   (Right) Dollond U
0:13:38   (Left) Two bright spots, South Ray and North Ray craters – Apollo 16 landing site
0:13:41   Dollond B 7.7°S, 13.8°E
0:13:43   Dollond D, Dollond L 12.4°E
0:13:45   Andel F 8.4°S, 11.0°E
0:13:52   (Right) Hind 7.9°S, 7.4°E, 29 km diameter
0:13:57   (Left) Albategnius B 10.0°S, 4.0°E
0:14:02   Ptolemaeus Y 9.3°S, 0.8°E
0:14:05   (Right) Ammonius (Ptolemaeus A) 8.5°S, 0.8°W, 9 km diameter
0:14:16   Palisa 9.4°S, 7.2°W, 33 km diameter
0:14:23   Guericke E 10.0°S, 12.0°W
0:14:27   (Right) Parry M
0:14:29   Tolansky (Parry A) 9.5°S, 16.0°W, 13 km diameter
0:14:32   (Left) Bonpland C
0:14:33   (Left) Bonpland D
0:14:38   Bonpland N   
0:14:40   Kuiper (Bonpland E) 9.8°S, 22.7°W, 6.8 km diameter
0:14:45   Eppinger (Euclides D) 9.4°S, 25.7°W, 6 km diameter
0:14:49   Montes Riphaeus 7°S, 28°W
0:14:55   Terminator, approximately 31° west

Use this info if you wish.  I used Antonin Rukl's "Atlas of the Moon", maps 41 to 46, to identify most of the features.

[raven]

Probably not quite as high resolution, but archive.org has a lot of Apollo 16mm DAC footage as well.
Well worth looking at.

[Echnaton]

Probably not quite as high resolution, but archive.org has a lot of Apollo 16mm DAC footage as well.
Well worth looking at.

Cool stuff, I could watch all day but my boss....