FAR SIDE OF THE MOON

[bknight]

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[Abaddon]

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OK. It is pretty straightforward. Plug phone into PC via USB. Copy offending image from phone to PC (some folder, make one that you can find afterwards). Use the resizer tool to make it small. Attach the reduced file to a post that you make.

Now, there are a few potholes which will possibly put an onion in your ointment. Go the easy way and let us deal with those as they arise.

[onebigmonkey]

These are great - what package are you using to get the images?

This web site:  Earth and Moon Viewer
Great site.  I was able to determine the location of Apollo 16 just by tweaking the latitude, longitude & altitude until it matched the photo, then checked the photo info to see if I was right.  Score! 

I thought it looked familiar! I've used it myself but not tried changing the viewing perspective befiore

Great post btw!

[Paul]

Wow - look at all this technical information about DSCOVR and the EPIC camera on-board.

CCD has 15 μm pixels (big!), nominal operating temperature -40C (wish my CCD was in space, mine is set for -10C...).





http://epic.gsfc.nasa.gov/epic.html
http://avdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/DSCOVR/DSCOVR-EPIC-Description.pdf

Great stuff 

[Sus_pilot]

(Please excuse the crude-ness - it's hand-drawn with MS Paint, but is accurate to within a few pixels)

You get the Dr. Emmett Brown award for humility on this one.  That was a superb explanation.

[Apollo 957]

Tarkus, do you UNDERSTAND Count Zero's explanation at Reply #399 ??

If not, don't post anything else, just state why.

If you DO understand it, do you now understand why you were mistaken earlier, in Reply #328 ?

[smartcooky]

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Excellent work Count Zero, and easy to understand.

For fun, here is an on board view of a rocket launch, a sideways view demonstratng the way that the visible horizon increases with altitude, a visual confirmation of your 4th diagram.

sideways video starts at around 2:51

 

[smartcooky]

You'll love this guys work 

http://stargazerslounge.com/topic/221601-sct-modifications-filter-wheelcamera-rotate-and-focus/#entry2382540




And this one:
http://stargazerslounge.com/topic/238180-quad-multi-lens-imaging-camera/page-5


[/thread drift]

Now that is some serious precision engineering, right there!!

[Sus_pilot]

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Excellent work Count Zero, and easy to understand.

For fun, here is an on board view of a rocket launch, a sideways view demonstratng the way that the visible horizon increases with altitude, a visual confirmation of your 4th diagram.

sideways video starts at around 2:51

But where are the stars? [Ducks and runs!]

[Dalhousie]

But where are the stars? [Ducks and runs!]

I thought the same! 

[Sus_pilot]

More seriously, what was that godawful feedback sound near apogee?  Was that the mike on the camera driving up the gain to try to hear something in the thinning air or some other artifact?

[Dalhousie]

More seriously, what was that godawful feedback sound near apogee?  Was that the mike on the camera driving up the gain to try to hear something in the thinning air or some other artifact?

The screams of the pilot because they weren't on the video? 

[Zakalwe]

For fun, here is an on board view of a rocket launch, a sideways view demonstratng the way that the visible horizon increases with altitude, a visual confirmation of your 4th diagram.

sideways video starts at around 2:51

There's no video of a pilot "driving" it, so therefore it MUST be a fake. 

[bknight]

Nearly full moon last night

[Zakalwe]

Tarkus,

Here's an image of the Moon that I took in late September.
http://www.closr.it/s/nah/

Based on the size of the image, it must be fake? Plus, there's no stars in the background, so that surely confirms that it's fake? Except (the inconvenient truth!), it's not a fake.
Of course, I might just be a paid NASA shill, and as we all know, NASA only tells lies. Plus they are paying me to lurk around on forums to put people like you off the scent and stop the 50-year old lie from being uncovered.

So, either my image is real and your assumptions are wrong, or you are right and my image is fake and i am a paid NASA shill. Which do you think is the more likely scenario?