Something weird in the background of a moon photo

Someone on another forum had posted a picture of the moon(original photo), and I was looking at it, and looked at the space background and noticed some weird stuff. Like...I could see stairs and walls. It was weird. Some people couldn't see what I was talking about...so I edited the photo and changed it to Heat Map and filled in some light. And now people were beginning to understand what I was looking at. I'm not claiming anything, but rather want some help on this.

Original photo

Edited version

Am I experiencing the phenomenon where you look at a cloud and see something like a...bunny, or perhaps a dragon breathing fire? I can't remember the term for it. When looking at the photos, it's at the top to the right where the "edge" of the lunar surface is.

reply to post by blahxd67


Who cares about the stairs-like thing, you actually photographed a cloud! Where is the cloud from, in the first place? The Moon has no atmosphere.

HM, I'll S&F you just for the fact that you photographed a cloud where there shouldn't be one.

Maybe the cloud is something in Earth's atmosphere and it showed up in the Moon shot?

Anyone can tell me how come there's a cloud in this shot? I been an astronomer for more than a decade but I've never seen that!

reply to post by blahxd67

All I did was enlarge it, leaving the original black/greys and the black rectangles poking up above the far horizon seem obvious. Seem more like doors than walls to me

reply to post by swan001


Uh...I didn't take the photo?

Originally posted by swan001
Anyone can tell me how come there's a cloud in this shot? I been an astronomer for more than a decade but I've never seen that!

I don't see a cloud, I do see grains, fibers, and fogginess on the photograph that was scanned. It's actually a much cleaner scan than what I used to get many years ago when I was just starting out in astrophotography and scanning film prints.

reply to post by blahxd67


Those would be some MASSIVE stairs, and that wall would put the Great Wall of China to shame.

reply to post by ngchunter


Hm. I use digital and it pixelates but it doesn't make that kind of clouds. Maybe I never saw these clouds simply because I stick with digital. Thanks!

Originally posted by blahxd67
reply to post by swan001

 

Uh...I didn't take the photo?

No kidding. Unless you're Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, or Bill Anders there's no way you took that photo since it's a photo from Apollo 8. Here's a cleaner scan of the photo (AS08-13-2244):
spaceflight.nasa.gov...

Originally posted by QuietSpeech
reply to post by blahxd67

 

Those would be some MASSIVE stairs, and that wall would put the Great Wall of China to shame.

I think the stairs alone would put the Great Wall of China to shame. Well, the "stairs." So I'm pretty much reading into nothing? I was kind of expecting that anyways.

Originally posted by ngchunter

Originally posted by blahxd67
reply to post by swan001

 

Uh...I didn't take the photo?

No kidding. Unless you're Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, or Bill Anders there's no way you took that photo since it's a photo from Apollo 8. Here's a cleaner scan of the photo (AS08-13-2244):
spaceflight.nasa.gov...

Thanks. That puts the thread to rest, since it was nothing more than a "dirty" scan.

Originally posted by swan001
reply to post by ngchunter

 

Hm. I use digital and it pixelates but it doesn't make that kind of clouds. Maybe I never saw these clouds simply because I stick with digital. Thanks!

It's a product of scanning a film print, I use to try to scan my film prints of the moon and this "cloud" is tame by comparison to the garbage I would get (even though you wouldn't see it on the photo itself). This was about 13 years ago though and the technology I had available to me at the time was much more primitive.

Originally posted by ngchunter

Originally posted by blahxd67
reply to post by swan001

 

Uh...I didn't take the photo?

No kidding. Unless you're Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, or Bill Anders there's no way you took that photo since it's a photo from Apollo 8. Here's a cleaner scan of the photo (AS08-13-2244):
spaceflight.nasa.gov...

From Apollo, eh? That means the picture wasn't taken with a digital camera.

It's a product of scanning a film print, I use to try to scan my film prints of the moon and this "cloud" is tame by comparison to the garbage I would get (even though you wouldn't see it on the photo itself). This was about 13 years ago though and the technology I had available to me at the time was much more primitive.

Oh. I don't do any scanning. That explains it.

Thanks again!

Originally posted by blahxd67
Thanks. That puts the thread to rest, since it was nothing more than a "dirty" scan.

The "stairs" were no doubt caused when astronauts tumbled down the stairs while holding unto the picture

I love it when a thread like this, has a logical and friendly resolution.

Good job all.....

Des

reply to post by Destinyone


Yeah skunk works

Originally posted by Destinyone
I love it when a thread like this, has a logical and friendly resolution.

Good job all.....

Des

edit on 4-4-2013 by Destinyone because: (no reason given)

i love the fact that everything posted never comes to anything but we always keep coming back hoping that one of the posts ends up being true

Was you talking about the blue object near the figure shadow

reply to post by Fisherr


Not even close. Sounds like you're trolling. However, the thread has been solved. Ngchunter posted a link to a cleaner scan of the photo I posted. And those "stairs" and "walls" that I saw were gone.

There are many interesting objects to view in the image.

I spent a couple of hours today enhancing certain parts of the image and found that the 'cloud' effect is obscuring a lot of surface detail. Personally, I do not think this is the true original but a modified version.