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I'd like to say that I've enjoyed reading all the banter and conjecture in regards to the wonderful pictures that Springer posted for Mr. Lear. This is one of the reasons why I enjoy this forum so much. Although I've not posted till now, I feel like this thread has provided a grand service for everyone to think about.
Before moving forward I do have one question that I haven't seen asked yet (or if so I missed it completely). This is in regards to the scanning of these images. I noticed that the identifying segment numbers located on the left of the images are in a reversed numerical order/position, and was curious if we are viewing these from (or off of) a negative or an actual print from whereever you recieved them from Mr. Lear? Not that it makes a lot of difference whether the images are viewed left to right, or right to left, but I thought it curious? If this has already been addressed my apologies, as it's not really a big deal.
As I mentioned above, this is my first post to this thread as I was reading and hoping someone else might have seen an area that I found a bit curious in the very first linked photo {uploads.abovetopsecret.com/Copernicus1-full.gif}. Since it has not yet been discussed or pointed out yet, I decided to jump on the 'thread-bandwagon'. This area would be located top left approximately 6" down and 13" to the right of the numerical segment identifier (for the lack of a better phrase).
Crop section of Original
Because of my first being drawn to this area because of what appears to possibly be to impact collisions above one other (conjecture), I decided to crop and zoom in a bit on the area of interest.
Cropped/Zoom section of interest
It was then i noticed that there appeared to be possibly either smear/water marks or maybe even there was some foreign moisture residue that may have been left on the scanner. But if not, then there was even more to this part of the area that puzzled me. If it was not a 'smear' then what else could it be. I decided to flip the image left to right and enhance with a number of filters that included Gamma, Sepia, Negative, as I felt these would be the filters that would leave the original image the least affected by manipulation of the original capured area.
Sepia Filtered
I decided to really do some heavy filtering and it does manipulate the image beyond normal constraints of analysis, but it's still interesting.
Over-Enhanced
I really don't know what I'm seeing as I'm no lunar expert, but I'm hoping that perhaps someone might be able to shine some light in this area.
Thanks Mr. Lear for the wonderful photos and discussion thread...!
[edit on 28-9-2006 by JohnnyAnonymous]
From Thread: John Lear's Moon Pictures on ATS
Posted by JohnnyAnonymous, on September 28, 2006 at 19:59 GMTI'd like to say that I've enjoyed reading all the banter and conjecture in regards to the wonderful pictures that Springer posted for Mr. Lear. This is one of the reasons why I enjoy this forum so much. Although I've not posted till now, I feel like this thread has provided a grand service for everyone to think about.
Before moving forward I do have one question that I haven't seen asked yet (or if so I missed it completely). This is in regards to the scanning of these images. I noticed that the identifying segment numbers located on the left of the images are in a reversed numerical order/position, and was curious if we are viewing these from (or off of) a negative or an actual print from whereever you recieved them from Mr. Lear? Not that it makes a lot of difference whether the images are viewed left to right, or right to left, but I thought it curious? If this has already been addressed my apologies, as it's not really a big deal.
As I mentioned above, this is my first post to this thread as I was reading and hoping someone else might have seen an area that I found a bit curious in the very first linked photo {uploads.abovetopsecret.com/Copernicus1-full.gif}. Since it has not yet been discussed or pointed out yet, I decided to jump on the 'thread-bandwagon'. This area would be located top left approximately 6" down and 13" to the right of the numerical segment identifier (for the lack of a better phrase).
Crop section of Original
Because of my first being drawn to this area because of what appears to possibly be to impact collisions above one other (conjecture), I decided to crop and zoom in a bit on the area of interest.
Cropped/Zoom section of interest
It was then i noticed that there appeared to be possibly either smear/water marks or maybe even there was some foreign moisture residue that may have been left on the scanner. But if not, then there was even more to this part of the area that puzzled me. If it was not a 'smear' then what else could it be. I decided to flip the image left to right and enhance with a number of filters that included Gamma, Sepia, Negative, as I felt these would be the filters that would leave the original image the least affected by manipulation of the original capured area.
Sepia Filtered
I decided to really do some heavy filtering and it does manipulate the image beyond normal constraints of analysis, but it's still interesting.
Over-Enhanced
I really don't know what I'm seeing as I'm no lunar expert, but I'm hoping that perhaps someone might be able to shine some light in this area.
Thanks Mr. Lear for the wonderful photos and discussion thread...!
[edit on 28-9-2006 by JohnnyAnonymous]
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