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Post by fireballxl5 on Nov 2, 2008 8:26:22 GMT -4
Someone asked me why in the photograph AS11-40-5927 does the LM shadow appear to reach the horizon. The shadow looks normal size to me but i cant explain why a short distance after the shadow we seem to see the blackness of the horizon.
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Post by JayUtah on Nov 2, 2008 11:08:29 GMT -4
The "horizon" in this case is just the crest of a nearby gentle rise. It's not miles and miles away. Despite all descriptions and evidence to the contrary, conspiracy theorists still believe the Apollo 11 landing site was perfectly flat. Hence they expect the horizon always to appear as far away as the theoretical horizon suggests.
The terrain can be seen a bit more clearly in AS11-40-5961, but only if you use a low-generation, high-resolution copy. Because Armstrong is shooting down-sun, terrain effects are subtle. But the intervening rise at the tip of Eagle's shadow is visible. It is barely detectable in AS11-40-5962, taken from a lower elevation and closer to Eagle.
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Post by dragonblaster on Nov 2, 2008 17:12:08 GMT -4
Yet again, the hoax footage editor shows himself unworthy of his crust! The guy was a total moron, not spotting all those errors.
It makes me wonder why the hoax director didn't insist on a single landing with a handful of photos that they went over with the finest of toothcombs before releasing them.
Six landings with hundreds of photos was just asking for trouble!
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Post by Jason on Nov 7, 2008 11:49:54 GMT -4
Maybe it was Ed Wood who directed the landings. He famously almost never did second takes.
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Post by Apollo Gnomon on Nov 7, 2008 17:45:54 GMT -4
Maybe it was Ed Wood who directed the landings. He famously almost never did second takes. He didn't even do FIRST takes, sometimes. He wrote a couple of stories to fit around stock footage he had acquired. |
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Post by inconceivable on Nov 7, 2008 22:02:21 GMT -4
Pete Conrad once said that when you are standing on the moon, the moon is so small that you can see it curving away from you. I suspect that is what is happening here.
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Post by JayUtah on Nov 7, 2008 23:34:20 GMT -4
That phenomenon would certainly apply; but in this case we have direct evidence of the local terrain feature that is causing the false horizon.
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