Moon Landing Photo

Here's another odd one I found.


This is from

AS-11-40-5906

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Ive drawn arrows to show the normal orientation of the shadow due to the light from behind. Now I am assuming that the long shadow on the left is from the lander maybe.

Now here is a zoomed in portion of what I noticed on the upper right hand side of the original.

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To me the shadow of the rock I circled is on not only on the wrong side, but looks a little boxy to me. Also notice the blue orbs I have circled as well. Probably something to do with dirt on the film and along those lines but interesting none the less.

Thoughts?

You make it sound so easy. If only astrophotography was actually that easy... First off the hassleblad cameras they had could not be set to an exposure long enough to capture significant amounts of stars, secondly they had no way of tracking the motion of the stars accurately during the exposure.

Apollo 16 did bring a UV telescope though that they used to photograph the earth and some stars in UV:
images.jsc.nasa.gov...

So I guess that fulfills your wish.

[edit on 20-8-2008 by ngchunter]

One is a reflection of earth, not kidding. The other is probably a flare of a reflection off the bright part of the LEM's leg but I'd have to look into it more. It intrudes into the reflection of the spacesuit where it meets the visor so it couldn't be anything in the sky, "warehouse light" or otherwise.

The shadows' directions are distorted by the spherical shape of the visor and by perspective effects, along with everything else in the reflection.