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Title: Exclusive look at Apollo 14 NASA photos
Post by: apollo16uvc on October 14, 2018, 01:43:33 PM
Exclusive look at Apollo 14 photos

Disclaimer: This is a preview, and may be subject to change.


Apollo 14 took high-resolution photos of the lunar surface from orbit with a modified Hycon KA-7A Aerial Reconnaissance Camera. The results produced from these military-grade optics and large-format film would be of incredible high resolutions.

And while other large-format photos of the lunar surface taken on Apollo 15, 16 and 17 are online in a mind-boggling 4.8 Gigapixels, high enough to discern Apollo equipment at the landing sites, high-resolution scans of the Apollo 14 KA-7A photos are missing.

The magazines used in the KA-7A camera were numbered AS14-79 and AS14-80.

First, below is a list of currently online sources for these photos, albeit in low and moderate resolution. (To my knowledge)

1. Scans of  Apollo 14 image catalog by Awe130 (http://awe130.com/apollo-14)
Notes: Awe130 has high-resolution scans of his catalog, but does not want to publish them. Perhaps someone from here can request access to the high-res scans?

2. Scans of Apollo 14 image catalog by NASA (http://apollo.sese.asu.edu/SUPPORT_DATA/ap14_index_part3b.pdf)
Notes: As14-80 frames start at PDF file page 9.

3. Scans of Apollo 14 science report (https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112057414796;view=1up;seq=298)
Notes: page 282 til 288

4. Two AS14-80 frames scanned from (presumed) prints, see two links bottom page (http://thehiddenmission.com/ApolloOrbitalimages/apollo_14_orbital_images.htm)

5. Various images from his own, and other sources. Provided by Paul (Also known as OneBigMonkey) (https://drive.google.com/open?id=1yji7K-y3URieUZn8HyGGO5Nv0d10Lhoi)

6. The US National Archives has two frames:
6.1: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/16701241
6.2: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/16701244

So why am I making this reply?:
Because I have acquired ten 20"x24"inch prints of magazine AS14-80 and together with Paul, am working on scanning and processing them.

We will present an other source for the images, and in much greater resolution and fidelity than previously online. Most of our scans were previously only available as ultra-low resolution scans from the Apollo 14 photo catalog.

We will be providing the highest-resolution scans of these photos online to date.

I use my Epson Perfection V750 Pro to scan the gargantuan print in 6 sections, making sure there is ample overlap between the scans. Vuescan 9 outputs two files, a contrast/brightness enhanced scan, and the uncorrected RAW scan. Both files are saved as 16-bit grayscale uncompressed TIFFs. Sharp prints are scanned at 800 DPI, soft prints are scanned at 300 DPI.

Paul then uses photoshop to merge the 6 individual scans back into a single image. The combined scan is saved in two versions; the uncorrected RAW version, and a contrast enhanced, sharpened version to try and get the most detail out of the prints possible. Due to the nature of this process, there may be some visible stitching where two scans meet.

The resultant image resolution is 307 Megapixels.

A photo of one of the prints:
(https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1939/31443324168_1ef8be4df3_c.jpg)

A Full-HD preview of the links below:
(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1962/45268835582_117ccf9415_o_d.jpg)

Full-res 307-Megapixel download of raw merge (https://drive.google.com/open?id=19mDZo_6ZeyuBLXMG9dFZ8Zw-ryB-5uMM)
Full-res 307-Megapixel download of the contrast enhanced/sharpened merge (https://drive.google.com/open?id=1DQXwuL4sPJzIYw_N0cqXw8g4kVPVElQG)

Once all the prints have been scanned and processed all the individual scans and merges will be provided, in RAW and enhanced.

Please tell me what you think! I and Paul would like feedback.

Kind regards,
Niels
Title: Re: Exclusive look at Apollo 14 NASA photos
Post by: bknight on October 14, 2018, 02:45:39 PM
Good luck with awe130, gone before my joining.  But by reputation he is a rather difficult man to deal with, concerning Apollo.  I doubt he will share with anyone any real data that might prove him wrong, again.
Title: Re: Exclusive look at Apollo 14 NASA photos
Post by: apollo16uvc on October 14, 2018, 02:50:35 PM
Good luck with awe130, gone before my joining.  But by reputation he is a rather difficult man to deal with, concerning Apollo.  I doubt he will share with anyone any real data that might prove him wrong, again.
I have been trying for about half a year to get his high-res scans, but he will not budge.

I am convinced he does not have higher-res scans than the ones he puts online, for some unknown reason.
Title: Re: Exclusive look at Apollo 14 NASA photos
Post by: Bryanpoprobson on October 14, 2018, 04:31:18 PM

I am convinced he does not have higher-res scans than the ones he puts online, for some unknown reason.

He does not have the Hi Res scans his images come from the original scans from the image catalogue published just after the mission,  his images are from that publication and are very low quality. The  two hi res scans you have already found seem to be the only ones in existence. I don't know why these images were never part of the re-scanning of the images. OBM IIRC has a copy of the document or two of the missing pages? AWE's images were negatives and possibly from the original plates used to print the publication. Edit:- And knowing Adrian as I and a few others here do, if he'd had any of the Hi res scans he would have published them and crowed about it.
Title: Re: Exclusive look at Apollo 14 NASA photos
Post by: Bryanpoprobson on October 14, 2018, 04:44:30 PM
There are long discussions regarding MAG 80 on the AWE130 members only thread, this comment from OBM was on page 181.

"Readers with long memories may remember the convoluted and nonsensical claims made by our reluctant member about Apollo 14's Magazine 80.

I have managed, through a perfectly sensible route that I am not willing to divulge publicly for fear of inundating my source with stupid spam (but which is completely obvious to anyone who can do joined up thinking) to acquire decent quality scans of the 'missing' 4 photographs from Magazine 80 - ie the 2 missing pages from the document hosted by ASU.

I will be posting them online when I get home and forwarding them on to the ALSJ. They are considerably better than the poor quality versions Adrian has posted from his fiche copy (prove otherwise Adrian), and they are from original photos, not the Photography index.

If anyone is curious about the source, PM me :)"
Title: Re: Exclusive look at Apollo 14 NASA photos
Post by: Bryanpoprobson on October 15, 2018, 08:01:46 AM
see also.. http://www.apollohoax.net/forum/index.php?topic=624.msg19383#msg19383
Title: Re: Exclusive look at Apollo 14 NASA photos
Post by: BertieSlack on October 15, 2018, 04:11:05 PM
I'm sure GoneToPlaid did a video a few years ago that showed LM Falcon in Apollo 15 orbital photos.
Title: Re: Exclusive look at Apollo 14 NASA photos
Post by: onebigmonkey on October 16, 2018, 12:44:35 PM
I'm sure GoneToPlaid did a video a few years ago that showed LM Falcon in Apollo 15 orbital photos.

Yep - he's not the only one :D

http://onebigmonkey.com/apollo/pancam/pancam.html

You can even see the details change as the missions progress.

The Panoramic camera was another one of those 'contains secret stuff' things that had remarkable resolving capability, second only to the LRO.

As far as I'm concerned Adrian lied through his teeth about having a better source, and only ever had a microfiche version of the report available everywhere else. If he had better material, he would have published it. His problem (aside from delusions of grandeur), as so often occurs with Apollo hoax nuts, is that he uses Apollo to disprove Apollo, those Hycon images are very detailed and show things you can only see on modern high resolution imagery of the same area.
Title: Re: Exclusive look at Apollo 14 NASA photos
Post by: apollo16uvc on October 16, 2018, 01:08:41 PM
Would you say the Hycon photos have a higher resolving power than the mapping camera and pancam images? even with the much lower-resolution scans available to us right now.
Title: Re: Exclusive look at Apollo 14 NASA photos
Post by: onebigmonkey on October 16, 2018, 02:17:47 PM
Would you say the Hycon photos have a higher resolving power than the mapping camera and pancam images? even with the much lower-resolution scans available to us right now.

I've just been looking at one of the Panoramic images covering AS14-80-10441

http://wms.lroc.asu.edu/apollo/view?camera=P&image_name=AS16-P-4522

and I would say as a rough guess the Hycon has double the resolution of the Panoramic one.  I'm going to download the relevant tiles for study later. What else is disk space for?!

Here's a screenshot of the Panoramic image compared with the Hycon:

(https://i.imgur.com/HsJPfHA.jpg)
Title: Re: Exclusive look at Apollo 14 NASA photos
Post by: apollo16uvc on October 16, 2018, 02:31:03 PM
That is sick! Is the hycon photo a tiny crater inside the THEOPHILUS crater?

Unfortunately I don't have nearly enough experience to find such a small detail, is it possible you can screenshot the AS16-P-4522 preview on the NASA website and circle the area where the crater is?

I would be interested in a comparison between the panoramic mapping camera, the LRO and the Hycon. Given how far you can zoom in into my Hycon scans, I say it is more than double the pancam!

I hope we can make comparisons with more equal lighting and viewing angle, but I guess we do not have that luxury.
Title: Re: Exclusive look at Apollo 14 NASA photos
Post by: onebigmonkey on October 16, 2018, 02:52:43 PM
That is sick! Is the hycon photo the THEOPHILUS crater?

I would be interested in a comparison between the panoramic mapping camera, the LRO and the Hycon. Given how far you can zoom in into my Hycon scans, I say it is more than double the pancam!

I hope we can make comparisons with more equal lighting and viewing angle, but I guess we do not have that luxury.

Yes, it's the Eastern edge of Theophilus, roughly -11.19079, 27.75183.

There will be some segments of Theophilus that have comparable lighting from the LRO but not the specific bit that I picked there (just to the left there would have been! Obviously LRO is much better but considering the age of both the Hycon and Panoramic cameras the resolution is remarkable. You can see why they weren't keen on the Soviets knowing just how good they were!
Title: Re: Exclusive look at Apollo 14 NASA photos
Post by: onebigmonkey on October 16, 2018, 03:06:03 PM
An LRO Hycon comparison

(https://i.imgur.com/3AQN9yO.jpg)
Title: Re: Exclusive look at Apollo 14 NASA photos
Post by: apollo16uvc on October 16, 2018, 03:24:34 PM
Very good, I bet if the sun angle was the same in the Hycon photo it would have almost the same resolution. the LRO photo appears higher resolution than it actually is due to the greater shadows.

Is that the LRO at maximum magnification?
Title: Re: Exclusive look at Apollo 14 NASA photos
Post by: onebigmonkey on October 16, 2018, 03:37:24 PM
Very good, I bet if the sun angle was the same in the Hycon photo it would have almost the same resolution. the LRO photo appears higher resolution than it actually is due to the greater shadows.

Is that the LRO at maximum magnification?

To be fair it is just a screenshot of the LRO quickmap at maximum zoom, rather than the image itself.
Title: Re: Exclusive look at Apollo 14 NASA photos
Post by: apollo16uvc on October 16, 2018, 04:02:31 PM
Thanks for your amazing research so far.
Title: Re: Exclusive look at Apollo 14 NASA photos
Post by: apollo16uvc on October 21, 2018, 12:05:22 PM
Another comparison by Paul,

This print was not sharp, so I only scanned at 300DPI. The resolution is still good:

(https://i.imgur.com/47miek1.png)

(https://i.imgur.com/VApLd1P.jpg)

Here is a list with the photos and the progression:

10412: Not yet scanned!
10441: Individual scans, merged.
10444: Individual scans, merged.
10453: Individual scans, merged.
10455: Individual scans, not yet merged.
10459: Individual scans, merged.
10466: Individual scans, not yet merged.
10503: Individual scans, merged.
10518: Not yet scanned!
10535: Individual scans, merged.
Title: Re: Exclusive look at Apollo 14 NASA photos
Post by: apollo16uvc on October 30, 2018, 01:00:15 PM
After several months of hard work, this project comes to a close. I'd like to thank everybody for their help and insight.

All of the 10 prints have been scanned and can be found on this archival website. (https://archive.org/details/thirdpartyspacephotos_201808)

AS14-80 prints:
Subject: 20x24" b/w darkroom prints
Medium: 20x24" darkroom paper
Scanner: Epson Perfection V750 Pro
Scan software: Vuescan 9
OS: Windows 10
Scan Resolution: Between 300 and 800 DPI, depends on print sharpness.
File extension: Tiff

Notes:
!LARGE FILE SIZES!
File size of individual frames varies from 17 to 125MB.
File size of merges varies from 124mb to 600mb.

Each print is scanned in 6 sections, making sure there is ample overlap between the scans.
Vuescan 9 outputs two files, a contrast/brightness enhanced scan, and the
uncorrected RAW scan. Both files are saved as 16-bit grayscale
uncompressed TIFFs. Sharp prints are scanned at 800 DPI, soft prints are
scanned at 300 DPI.

Paul/OneBigMonkey then uses photoshop to merge the 6
individual scans back into a single image. The combined scan is saved in
two versions; the uncorrected RAW version, and a contrast enhanced,
sharpened version to try and get the most detail out of the prints
possible. Due to the nature of this process, there may be some visible
stitching where scans meet.

Individual scans provided as AS14-80-10###-C#-I#-F#, merged files uploaded with 'merge-C#-I#' suffix.

C1I1= Colour fade/cast correction enabled. ICE Infrared Spot/dust removal enabled set to light. I2 = set to medium. Highlight / dark values enhancement for greater contrast, usually very conservative to not blow highlights/dark values.

C0I0 / RAW = Colour fade/cast correction disabled. ICE Infrared Spot/dust removal disabled. Unprocessed scan.

F## = frame number of set or single image scanned in multiple sections.


Below is a list of full-res merged files as JPGs (Between 8 and 75 MB each)

AS14-80-10412 (https://archive.org/download/thirdpartyspacephotos_201808/AS14-80-10412-merged-C1-I0.jpg)
AS14-80-10441 (https://archive.org/download/thirdpartyspacephotos_201808/AS14-80-10441-merged-C1-I0.jpg)
AS14-80-10444 (https://archive.org/download/thirdpartyspacephotos_201808/AS14-80-10444-merged-C1-I0.jpg)
AS14-80-10453 (https://archive.org/download/thirdpartyspacephotos_201808/AS14-80-10453-merged-C1-I0.jpg)
AS14-80-10455 (https://archive.org/download/thirdpartyspacephotos_201808/AS14-80-10455-merged-C1-I0.jpg)
AS14-80-10459 (https://archive.org/download/thirdpartyspacephotos_201808/AS14-80-10459-merged-C1-I0.jpg)
AS14-80-10466 (https://archive.org/download/thirdpartyspacephotos_201808/AS14-80-10466-merged-C1-I0.jpg)
AS14-80-10503 (https://archive.org/download/thirdpartyspacephotos_201808/AS14-80-10503-merged-C1-I0.jpg)
AS14-80-10518 (https://archive.org/download/thirdpartyspacephotos_201808/AS14-80-10518-merged-C1-I0.jpg)
AS14-80-10535 (https://archive.org/download/thirdpartyspacephotos_201808/AS14-80-104535-merged-C1-I0.jpg)

Paul will continue to look at the files in closer detail and compare them to other space missions to the moon, as seen in my previous posts. New developments will be posted here.

I am always searching for more of these photos, so if you know any please notify me, so I can try and get it online.

If you are interested in having one of these prints, send me a PM.

Best regards,
Niels
Title: Re: Exclusive look at Apollo 14 NASA photos
Post by: apollo16uvc on November 08, 2018, 10:19:12 AM
Yesterday I received all AS14-79 and AS14-80 photos from the NSSDCA. Looks like a film copy 'scanned' with a Nikon d750 and 60mm micro nikkor.
 
The 25mb TIFF files are problematic to open, it seems that in addition to the full resolution (6004 * 4002) photo there is a preview and thumbnail view in the file. So there are 3 photos in 1 file. Its only correctly opened with software that understands Nikon RAW. I will convert the files to something common for publication.

Unfortinately 'old style jpg' compression is used in the files, so when you zoom in you see JPG compression blocks. I have asked if the NSSDCA can supply NIKON. NEF files without compression.
 
I will keep this topic updated.
Title: Re: Exclusive look at Apollo 14 NASA photos
Post by: apollo16uvc on November 11, 2018, 06:39:44 AM
Disclaimer: I and Paul are not from NASA or endorsed by them.  We are doing this in our own free time.

This archive contains 251 photos taken on Apollo 14 by a modified Hycon KA-7A camera.  (https://archive.org/details/AS14-79-80)These magazines were designated as AS14-79 and AS14-80.

I would like to thank the NSSDCA for scanning and providing magazine AS14-79 and AS14-80.

I would like to thank Paul for processing the NSSDCA .TIFF files.

These photos were acquired by requesting NSSDCA dataset PSPG-00256. A film or digital copy of AS14-79 and AS14-80 was requested. The NSSDCA scanned a film for this request and several months later the resultant digital dataset was provided.

Each file is 23 MB and has a resolution of 6016*4016 pixels.

The NSSDCA provided TIFF files appear to be NIKON D750 raw files, which can only be correctly opened with special software. Paul was kind enough to batch-process all raw files.  Each file was put through a DNG converted, Photoshop will then allow it to be imported normally. This caused the images to turn brown, which was corrected by turning them grayscale.

Thanks everybody for your support.

Good night.
Title: Re: Exclusive look at Apollo 14 NASA photos
Post by: onebigmonkey on November 11, 2018, 05:06:30 PM
I am trying to locate the Mag 79 files on the lunar surface but it's proving tricky!

This is a montage of all the images (I've angled to roughly match the orbital inclination).

(https://i.imgur.com/2vo6Ku0.jpg)

If they are at the same scale as the Mag 80 files it covers a distance of around 20 km or so, but there is something about the shading that suggest it is not at maximum zoom (I admit I'm going on gut feeling there more than anything). The transcript shows that Roosa tested Mag 79 after Mag 80 failed, and after discussing it with Houston. He reports his experience not long after AOS on the next rev.

The shadow direction suggests that it is on the western portion of the daylight part of the orbit, and will have been done at some point after the Descartes landing site, as Magazine 80 ends around there - just 2500 km or so or orbit to look through then ;)

I'll find it, but it will take a while :D
Title: Re: Exclusive look at Apollo 14 NASA photos
Post by: Bryanpoprobson on November 12, 2018, 09:50:00 AM
This is really good stuff from you both, I do so hope you have informed AWE130 that his so called "sole" archive has been superseded? 
Title: Re: Exclusive look at Apollo 14 NASA photos
Post by: onebigmonkey on November 12, 2018, 06:16:33 PM
For the record, the last image with identifiable features (at least the ones released to apollo16uvc) is on this one (AS14-80-10765)

(https://i.imgur.com/F7AxZn6.jpg)

The feature I've marked with a white x is on the western edge of an unidentified crater south west of Lindsay:

(https://i.imgur.com/9oaCE5j.jpg)
Title: Re: Exclusive look at Apollo 14 NASA photos
Post by: onebigmonkey on November 13, 2018, 03:04:02 PM
I finally tracked the location of the Mag 79 images.

While the transcript indicated that Roosa had experimented with this magazine immediately after the failure of Mag 80, it became apparent (after spending days looking!) that Mag 79's images did not lie on that orbital path. The clue came from later on in the transcript, where he discusses what he did while Antares was on the way down:

Quote
I did not take the LTC photo target 16; I figured that Gordon had implied that it might be a waste of film to shoot them this way; I thought maybe we could get it fixed, we could save the film. I did shoot the landing because I figured, even if it is working - that one we wouldn't have another chance at. And I fired 39 frames off of magazine B [the transcript refers to 'B' a couple of times, I believe it's an error] on the landing per the pad. I don't know whether it will turn out or not, because it - it clanked and fluttered the whole time.

It is such a shame that the camera failed, because he did indeed capture the landing site, marked with the red dot here:

(https://i.imgur.com/AzO9Cfa.jpg)

and with the quality of the images could have captured the LM immediately after touchdown, or possibly during the landing itself! That said it is not as closely zoomed in as the earlier sessions - the area covered here is 150 km long by 35 km wide, much more than with the same number of frames in Mag 80.

As he also tried some other tests of the Hycon there may still be other images available from that magazine somewhere.
Title: Re: Exclusive look at Apollo 14 NASA photos
Post by: apollo16uvc on November 13, 2018, 04:18:51 PM
I can recommend the Microsoft ICE 2.0 stitching software. it was able to seamlessly automatically stitch 20-some Apollo Metric Mapping Camera pictures. It also automatically corrects for viewing angle, and path of the photographer. It tries best to even out the lighting differences between AMPC frames.

I tried stitching the Hycon photos, but it gets confused by the black clock and framing spaces. After removing the borders it worked flawlessly and takes just a few minutes with full-res PNG files.

I recommend converting tiff files to PNG because it drastically reduces processing time and hardware requirements.

I know you have made some panorama's from Apollo live TV footage, the ICE 2.0 software can also create panorama images from video, might be worth a shot. if not, I am sure it can merge them when screenshotted.

See some of the work I have done here:
(OPEN ONLY ON FREE CONNECTION, IT WILL DOWNLOAD +700 MB PREVIEWS)

https://archive.org/details/Spacep-anoramas
Title: Re: Exclusive look at Apollo 14 NASA photos
Post by: onebigmonkey on November 16, 2018, 03:42:37 AM
I've now added these files to my 'Google Moon' kmz files available here:

http://onebigmonkey.com/apollo/kmz/apollokmz.html

Positions of quite a few can only be regarded as approximate given the lack of detail in many parts of Google Moon. While the Metric Mapping Camera layer is available, switching between that and Google showed that there are positional differences in some areas. I opted for consistency and used LRO screenshots aligned with Google's base layer to plot them where the base layer itself is poor. The sharp-eyed amongst you will notice that I have shifted the position of the final few low resolution images as a result of this more accurate plotting.

I did notice that there are two files available in the original low resolution photography report that haven't been supplied, AS14-80-10504 and AS14-80-10561. I wondered if this was an oversight on their part or whether they are damaged (a couple of the images show signs that the film has been repaired).

I hope to start writing this up soon with a view to comparing the detail in the images (particularly the very high resolution scans apollo16uvc obtained of actual photographs) with other orbital images.
Title: Re: Exclusive look at Apollo 14 NASA photos
Post by: bknight on November 16, 2018, 11:20:41 AM
obm, I have a question concerning these CSM images.  Since all the missions except 17 are all pretty much around the equator.  o any of the images overlap from mission to mission? Or are the strips too narrow to overlap?
Title: Re: Exclusive look at Apollo 14 NASA photos
Post by: onebigmonkey on November 16, 2018, 02:04:03 PM
Good question.

Apart from Apollo 14 itself (where Magazine Q covered the same orbital parameters), Apollo 12 (magazine T and some parts of magazines  S, U and CC) and 16 (parts of magazines PP SS and OO) have the best overlap. Apollo 16's metric and panoramic cameras cover it well, but the quality is not as good as the best Hycon ones. If you download my kmz files for google earth you'll get an idea of the overlap, and how small an area the images cover. Most of the 70mm Hasselblad images from orbit that look straight down cover an area about 75km*75km, compared with just over 5km*5km for the Hycon.

As well as being a superb camera it was also planned to photograph from very low orbit (as low as 10 nautical miles). There is this comment in the transcript around the time they were photographing Theophilus:

03 17 08 l0 CMP Hey, I'm getting a great look at my low-altitude landmarks, Gordon, from this low pass here.
03 17 08 16 CC Roger, Stu.
03 17 08 28 LMP Gordon, I can't even attempt to describe this, we're passing over it so rapidly. There's so much here to talk about.

and prior to that:

03 15 07 15 CC In about 4 minutes, you'll be at your minimum altitude, which should be about 40,000 feet above the terrain. We're wondering how things look down there.
03 15 07 33 LMP Well, I'm glad to hear you say we're that high. It looks like we're quite a bit lower as a matter
of fact - below some of the peaks on the horizon, although that's only an illusion.
Title: Re: Exclusive look at Apollo 14 NASA photos
Post by: apollo16uvc on December 25, 2018, 08:40:10 AM
Paul and I did not sit still, here a taste of the research done on the photos. Paul has been able to find the location for every AS14-80 and AS14-79 photo.

Location of the AS14-80 photos from NASA:
(https://www.astroforum.nl/filedata/fetch?id=1402229&d=1543755436)


Location of AS14-80 photos scanned by me:
(https://www.astroforum.nl/filedata/fetch?id=1402232&d=1543755580)


Let's compare AS14-80-10441 with the other sources over the years.
(https://www.astroforum.nl/filedata/fetch?id=1402234&d=1543757747)

(https://www.astroforum.nl/filedata/fetch?id=1402235&d=1543758455)


It can be seen that the large-scale photography of the Apollo missions is very competitive against modern probes,  even against the LRO.

And what about the AS14-79 photos? Although the magazine did not work well, Rosa tried to photograph the Apollo 14 landing site during the landing. Did he succeed?

(https://www.astroforum.nl/filedata/fetch?id=1402236&d=1543755580)


Hell yes! Cone Crater can be seen on a number of photographs. Let's zoom in:
(https://www.astroforum.nl/filedata/fetch?id=1402230&d=1543755579)
(https://www.astroforum.nl/filedata/fetch?id=1402237&d=1543758603)

The red arrow points to Cone Crater, the largest crater at the landing site. If the magazine had worked properly, Rosa might have photographed the LM shortly after landing, or perhaps even during the landing. Whether AS14-79 had enough resolution for that, I'm not sure. The photos were taken in a higher orbit than AS14-80.

All of Paul's research can be found on his marvelous website! (http://onebigmonkey.com/apollo/hycon/hycon.html)
Title: Re: Exclusive look at Apollo 14 NASA photos
Post by: bknight on December 25, 2018, 12:33:51 PM
Congratulations to both of you.
Title: Composite
Post by: apollo16uvc on May 28, 2019, 04:38:24 PM
I've made a combination of two overlapping photos. From my scans and Paul's merged photos.
AS14-80-10453 and 10455

(https://live.staticflickr.com/4877/45411409684_bb673369dd_k_d.jpg)

Larger 6000x4033 jpg. (https://live.staticflickr.com/4877/45411409684_23a5432c13_o_d.png)

Title: Re: Exclusive look at Apollo 14 NASA photos
Post by: Dandy on July 17, 2019, 08:44:22 PM
This was so cool to read through guys. Thanks so much!
Title: Re: Exclusive look at Apollo 14 NASA photos
Post by: apollo16uvc on September 15, 2019, 04:08:05 PM
I have donated one of the prints to the Tivoli Observatory, a small Dutch observatory that aims to educate the public about astronomy. They have a history with NASA and received Apollo 10 & 11 with their radio equipment.

The print has been hung on a wall for visitors to see. Visitors will be able to use a magnifying glass to see surface, rock and crater detail. Ed's photo is seen at the bottom right, Paul and my scanning work is seen on the right middle frame.

(https://i.imgur.com/AKNrWh7.jpg)