Postcard of the Day

[fflo]

Info on the shot on this postcard.

Today's Google Doodle is nice, but I really like this as-it-happened account of the approach and landing, a short video at (the usually still) Astronomy Picture of the Day.  Experience it in preparation for tomorrow's landing anniversary?
 

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[peteralway.livejournal.com]

I agree that it's a good one--someone linked to that video a few weeks ago, and it was really powerful. There's another one where they put that film side-by-side with a reconstructed view out Armstrong's window: (oops. can't find the right link)

[fflo.livejournal.com]

Ooh, this is very cool. I got it from the link in your deleted comment, as emailed to me.

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

there's a cooler one I can't find right now.

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

Ok, so rather than drive myself crazy with image links, you can find my last few day's Apollo posts over on Facebook. There's rockets and fairy castles and other stuff, one post per day.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

I did it--- opened my obsolete facebook-isolation browser here at the office.

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

Hey, I took my own picture of the scenery in your postcard! I took this shot in 2010 by holding a pocket digital camera up to the eyepiece of my telescope. The crater in your postcard, Maskelyne, is circled, and an arrow points to the Apollo 11 landing site:

[fflo.livejournal.com]

Nice! I believe that's the 23km-wide crater I recall noting in various stuff about the approach.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

It's so cool that you could (can) see it from here with just the lenses in the telescope.

My usage of "cool" goes up a lot when talking about this stuff.

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

The APOD video names it in the text around 8:55, and I assume that's the crater that appears on the film a couple of seconds later.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

I tell ya, if they were faking all this stuff, those were some detail-oriented moon landing fakers.