A map of all the Apollo missions on a full moon picture taken by Dobviews using a Galaxy A14/17.3 Delos lens on a 10" Dobsonian telescope.
All of the corresponding close-up pictures of those landing are from NASA's Lunar Reconnaisance Orbiter.
The bank of 6 shots are all property of NASA LRO / JPL
Enjoy,
Dobs
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We last landed on the Moon in 1972. 🌕
52 years later, we still haven’t left low-Earth orbit again.
We dive into why:
🛠️ Lost tooling
📐 Forgotten knowledge
🧠 Celebrating old-school engineers
https://youtube.com/shorts/qUUmZUWnOvA
#SpaceExploration #ApolloMissions #EngineeringLost #ACast734 #AwesomeCast
A Lunar Explorer: The Lunar Roving Vehicle 🌕
Witness the installation of the Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) into the Apollo Lunar Module at Kennedy Space Center in 1971. This innovative vehicle, designed for lunar exploration, was a marvel of engineering, allowing astronauts to travel farther and conduct more extensive scientific experiments.
The LRV's ingenious deployment system and lightweight design were essential for its success on the Moon.
#Apollo11 (#SaturnV SA-506 rocket) launched from #KennedySpaceCenter's Launch Complex 39A on July 16, 1969, carrying Commander #NeilArmstrong, Command Module Pilot #MichaelCollins and Lunar Module Pilot #Edwin "#Buzz" #Aldrin on a journey to the #Moon. #NeilArmstrong and #BuzzAldrin spent 21 hours, 36 minutes on the #Moon's surface.
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#SpaceMastodon #Spacedon #Space #AstronomyMastodon #Astrodon #Astronomy #ScienceMastodon #Sciencedon #Science #Apollo #ApolloMissions #MoonMissions
On July 20, 1969, Astronauts #NeilArmstrong and #BuzzAldrin became the first #Earth humans to step onto the lunar surface. Together they collected 47.5 pounds of lunar material for return to Earth. An estimated 650 million Earth humans watched this historic event. #Apollo11 set the stage for continued exploration of the #Moon.
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The white spacesuit is such an icon of cutting-edge science, it’s shocking to see how steampunky the early ones are #spacesuit #apollomissions #science
Rare Zeiss 50mm f/0.7 Lens Made for NASA To Fetch Up To $146,000
Leitz Photographica Auction
On June 12, the 38th Leitz Photographica Auction is set to offer a large assortment of rare and highly collectible camera products, the most notable of which is a rare Zeiss Planar 50mm f/0.7 lens designed in 1966 for NASA Apollo missions.
Described as the "most famous lens produced by Zeiss," the Planar 50mm f/0.7 was designed to photograph the moon's far side during the NASA lunar missions. The Leitz Photographica Auction says that it was incredibly fast, about two stops faster than the available lenses of the time.
In 1975, Stanley Kubrick used three of these lenses to film Barry Lyndon, a period drama based on the 1844 novel The Luck of Bary Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray. According to the auction listing, this lens's unique properties allowed Kubrick to film some of the most iconic visuals known in cinematography.
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Some scenes were lit only by candlelight and shot with the lens on a modified Michell camera. Its fast aperture allowed Kubrick to shoot in exceedingly low light conditions. The film won the 1976 Oscar for cinematography.
This particular lens is listed as in "beautiful condition" and with "clean optics." It is mounted on a modified Nikon F body and includes a removable tripod mount. The lens is slated to begin auction at about $67,000 and is expected to draw as much as $146,000.
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Only 10 of these lenses were ever produced. Six of them were supplied to NASA and three of them to Kubrick, which left only one in the Carl Zeiss factory museum. In an interview with Insider, Andreas Schweiger of Leitz Photographica Auction believes that most likely this is one of the lenses that was supplied to NASA.
The full 38th Leitz Photographica Auction catalog can be viewed here, and one camera that is conspicuously absent despite considerable publicity earlier this year is the Leica prototype designed by Jony Ive and Marc Newson. The camera was expected to draw over $200,000 at auction, but according to Schweiger, the seller decided last minute to pull the camera.
No details on why the camera's seller decided to pull the item from the auction were provided.
#equipment #news #50mm #apollomissions #auction #leitz #leitzphotographicaauction #nasa #nikonf #rarelens #stanleykubrick #zeiss #zeissplanar50mmf07
RIP.
"Michael Collins, who piloted the Apollo 11 spacecraft Columbia in orbit 60 miles above the moon while his crewmates, Neil Armstrong and Col. Buzz Aldrin, became the first men to walk on the lunar surface, died on Wednesday at a hospice facility in Naples, Fla. He was 90."
#Apollo11 #ApolloMissions #MichaelCollins #Space #Exploration #Moon #Obituaries
"One of the truly unsung heroes of the Apollo program has passed away at age 95. Donald D. Arabian, Chief of the Apollo Test Division, headed the Mission Evaluation Room (MER), which was responsible for solving in-flight problems during the Apollo missions to the Moon."
From takeoff to landing: a transcript with shots the astronauts took during the Apollo 13 mission.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/13/science/apollo-13-moon-photos-as-they-shot-it.html
A fascinating look at the damaged Apollo 13 Service Module using modern image analysis software to enhance details of the damage.
https://history.nasa.gov/afj/ap13fj/a13-sm-damage.html
This is gorgeous.
"NASA Goddard
This video uses data gathered from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft to recreate some of the stunning views of the Moon that the Apollo 13 astronauts saw on their perilous journey around the farside in 1970."
An interview with Ann Montgomery, who was responsible for "testing hundreds of pieces of loose equipment that the [Apollo] astronauts used during each mission".
Awesome. Ken Shirriff on looking inside the Apollo Guidance Computer's core memory.
#ComputerHistory #ApolloMissions #ApolloGuidanceComputer #History #Space
http://www.righto.com/2019/01/inside-apollo-guidance-computers-core.html
