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reply posted on 19-1-2007 @ 03:03 PM by thehumbleone
I just wanted to say, thanks for the reply.



reply posted on 21-1-2007 @ 11:46 AM by rdube02
Hi Mr. Lear,

I confess, I have not followed all of your material here on ATS as much as others have (until recently anyway).

Regarding your moon photos, I read
at this website the following quote from one of your posts (scroll down under "Photo Source Information")

(I've bolded the relevant passages)


The first 4 are separate scans of one photo Lunar Orbiter 2-162H. I ordered this photo many years ago from a NASA contractor, I forget which. When the package arrived it was a 16x20 inch negative. It took until a couple of years ago to find someone in Las Vegas that could print from a 16x20 negative. I had 2 prints made, one a 16x20 print and one 20x24 which is now on my den wall. I took the 16x20 over to Bob Lazar's and he scanned it in 4 sections: no. 1 is top left, no. 2 is top right, no. 3 is bottom right and no. 4 is bottom left. No. 5 is a scan of Lunar Orbiter 5-155M.

The LO-2-162H has not been retouched as far as I can tell. LO-5-155 has been retouched which is obvious from others photos I have of 155. The other photo I am referring to is published in "Exploring the Moon Through Binoculars and Small Telescopes by Ernest H. Cherrington, Jr. published in Canada by the General Publishing Co. Toronto, copyright 1969, 1984. It is on page 230 I think but I will check.

LO-2-162H is an oblique photo of the north face of Copernicus looking north. I will post the technical data in the next couple of days. The Lunar Orbiter cameras were launched in 1965-1966 and 1967. There were 5 Orbiters. They sent back thousands of crystal clear photos of the moon. As I mentioned most of these photos have been retouched. Through some quirk of fate I not only received on that wasn't retouched but received the actual negative.



My question is this - from your post above my impression is that you are saying these photos, in particular the LO-2-162H, has been retouched by NASA in order to cover up the anomalies - however you were able to obtain a unique, untouched negative (original) from a NASA contractor? I'm assuming this would be something just any member of the general public would not be able to obtain - anything we obtain would be NASA's "touched-up" copy?

I'm interested in this, because the implication that NASA retouches its lunar photos is an important one, and I'd certainly love to confirm that fact if I can. If this issue has already been discussed in another thread on ATS, could someone point me in the right direction?

Thanks!

-Ry
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