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The Reality of Apollo / Re: Apollo 11 and 17 imaged by South Korea

« Last post by Zakalwe on April 22, 2024, 03:27:36 AM »

Sheesh.
Even S. Korea are part of the global conspiracy and are doing their bit to maintain it even after all these years!

/s

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The Reality of Apollo / Apollo 11 and 17 imaged by South Korea

« Last post by onebigmonkey on April 21, 2024, 03:42:31 AM »

Quietly, and without too much fuss, South Korea has been photographing the lunar surface, and has managed to get shots of Apollo 11 and Apollo 17's lunar modules. They've also imaged a decent chunk of Hadley Rille - they just miss the landing site, but photos taken of the rille are, unsurprisingly, a perfect match for those taken during Apollo 15.

Here's their tweet about it:

https://twitter.com/kari2030/status/1706532004945412205

The raw images are available here:

https://www.kari.re.kr/kpds/published/KPLO/KPLO/PublicRelease/LUTI/Data

There's a view of Apollo 11 taken in May that isn't yet availalbe.

If you want to grab the files yourself, search for these in the lists:

Apollo 11 (March 2023 folder)

KPLO_LUTIA_230330_074522_

Apollo 17 (March 2023 folder)

KPLO_LUTIA_230329_180702_

Hadley Rille (February 2023 folder)

KPLO_LUTIA_230205_051116_

There are .img and .png formats, as well as RAW and Processed versions (I've edited out the parts of the filename that reference raw/calibrated). Each specific time and date from 'LUTIA' has a companion 'LUTIB' image if you want to view the wider site.

Here are Apollo 11 and 17 from my own processing:





And Apollo 11 from May 2023 that isn't yet public as a raw image



They idenitfy the large white flare as the LRRR.

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The Reality of Apollo / Homemade Documentaries - YT channel

« Last post by Peter B on April 16, 2024, 09:48:48 AM »

I've only just started exploring this channel, but I thought it worth a shout-out anyway.

Has some really nice videos on a range of NASA programs and missions.

Check it out!

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General Discussion / Re: Apollo 11 video feed delay?

« Last post by raven on April 16, 2024, 05:52:30 AM »

I think it's an ingeniously quick and dirty solution for something at the time would be much harder to do  purely electronically at the time, to my limited understanding.

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General Discussion / Re: Kids say the darnedest things...

« Last post by Peter B on April 16, 2024, 01:44:17 AM »

School holidays...

13YOS: There's only two things I want to do at the moment.

11YOD: Stay in bed and watch TV?

...pause...

13YOS: There's only four things I want to do at the moment.

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General Discussion / Re: Eclipse 2024

« Last post by Zakalwe on April 15, 2024, 04:25:54 AM »

The moon phase at a total solar eclipse?

 

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General Discussion / Re: Eclipse 2024

« Last post by jfb on April 12, 2024, 06:59:23 PM »

We didn't see any stars at totality.  Venus and Jupiter were visible, but that's it. 

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General Discussion / Re: Apollo 11 video feed delay?

« Last post by jfb on April 12, 2024, 06:55:54 PM »

Here's a pretty authoritative document describing the conversion process. 

Short version: the signal from the Moon was displayed to a slow-scan, high-persistence-phosphor monitor.  A second TV camera photographed the image on the screen, that signal was doubled with a delay to emulate a 525-line NTSC frame, repeat 3 times per frame. 

I have no clue were he gets the "3 hours" from. 

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General Discussion / Re: Eclipse 2024

« Last post by Allan F on April 12, 2024, 06:16:14 PM »

The moon phase at a total solar eclipse?

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General Discussion / Re: Eclipse 2024

« Last post by PDI on April 12, 2024, 01:04:18 PM »

There's a video on YT mapping total eclipses for the next 20 years around the world. South-east Australia (where I am) gets a pair in 2028 and 2030.

Perhaps I can see about putting out the welcome mat...

The welcome mat would be great! My wife and I can meet you where ever. (Compared to our trip from the United States to Australia, a few hundred kilometers one way or another won't make a difference.)

Do you know what the Moon phase will be? I would like to see the stars in the southern hemisphere, too!