Moon-Earth Question - Apollo Moon Mission

In article , Peter
Smith wrote:

And the Honeysuckle antenna was *just* at its acquisition angle of about
12deg. So eastern Australia was just rotating into view - the Pacific
would have been the major feature. Also it was July and the moon was about
side-on to the earth wrt the sun, and from memory it was about 10am in
Sydney so the Americas would have been in darkness. The (what do you call
the line between night and day?) would have been in the eastern pacific, or
maybe the western continental US.

Terminator line. It's bit less of a sharp line on Earth, what with the
atmosphere and all, but you can still see an interesting diagonal slant
through the sky from high-altitude flights at the right time :-)

With this reasoning, the prominent feature would have been the Pacific with
Australia visible to the left. What was 'visible' of the americas (Alaska
and north east USA) was in darkness. Hawaii was in full view, but I'm sure
would be difficult to visualise from so far.)

Of course, if someone has access to a photograph archive, I'm sure there
was at least one of the Earth taken during the EVA...

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| Of course, if someone has access to a photograph archive, I'm sure there
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Two good ones, but too many clouds for me to identify continents.

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The universe is not required to conform | Jay Windley
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"Jay Windley" wrote in message ...
"Andrew Gray" wrote in message
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| Of course, if someone has access to a photograph archive, I'm sure there
| was at least one of the Earth taken during the EVA...

Two good ones, but too many clouds for me to identify continents.

You might be able see something in this high resolution version.

http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/Hi...-40-5924HR.jpg

"AstroMike" wrote in message
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| You might be able see something in this high resolution version.
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| http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/Hi...-40-5924HR.jpg

Tried; couldn't. Can you make out any continents under the clouds?

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The universe is not required to conform | Jay Windley
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From Jay Windley:
"AstroMike" wrote in message
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| You might be able see something in this high resolution version.
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| http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/Hi...-40-5924HR.jpg

Tried; couldn't. Can you make out any continents under the clouds?

No, I can't. But that angle with the LM gives a great feel for just
how high in the lunar sky the Earth was. I expect that there were few
times during EVA that Neil and Buzz ever saw the Earth unless they
deliberately tried.

(Most everyone here is probably aware that the position of the Earth
in the lunar sky stays constant for any particular landing site.
There is *no* earthrise or earthset. It just appears to hang there
permanently, day in day out, year in year out.)


~ CT

In article ,
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"Jay Windley" wrote in message ...
"Andrew Gray" wrote in message
. ..
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| Of course, if someone has access to a photograph archive, I'm sure there
| was at least one of the Earth taken during the EVA...

Two good ones, but too many clouds for me to identify continents.

You might be able see something in this high resolution version.

http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/Hi...-40-5924HR.jpg

I would guess that the brownish-orangish patch in the upper left of the
visible half-Earth is Australia. But that's just from knowing what time
of day it was.

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