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Apollo Moon Landing Site Panoramas
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All i have to say is where are the transformers?
No matter how many times I see pictures like these, the thought of going to the moon sends a tingle down my spine.
As a child I had a book about the Apollo missions and I used to read it and imagine the silence and the darkness. Recently I watched “In the shadow of the moon” and I thought it was excellent. It comes with my recommendation.
question, if the bright object in the middle is the sun, why are the shadows pointing in incorrect directions?
@Rob – I don’t wish to be rude but please learn a little about light and shadows before bringing that nonsense here. Seriously. Start here http://www.clavius.org/trrnshdow.html
@Rob – I think it’s ‘cos it’s a panorama – it goes right round 360º to where it started, you can see the shadow of the spaceship and the tracks in the dust again at the other side.
Took me a minute or two to figure it out as well.
Thank you Ruth, i was wondering the same thing. I thought it was a panoramic from side to side only, not a 360 view and it make sense. But still i wonder why stars are not shown…
Because Noel, if you want to have stars visible, you have to use different light parameters-photo would be overexposed (surface would be white and probably ammount of light would be to big to have cleare viev of anything). for example-try shoot a stars from the middle of town, near light source.
sorry for my english.
Those damned bastards, astronauts, should start shooting HDR photographs like we, retronauts, do… so that we can have a clear view of both stars and surface. But they are too damned stupid for that.