New Photo Of Neil Armstrong On The Moon

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<p>As you may know, there were no good photos of Neil Armstrong taken on the moon. Mainly because he had the camera most of the time, and there was no official plan to take his photo in the flight plan.</p><p>Some might say Buzz should have taken one anyway, or that Neil should have asked for one, or it didnt occur to them as they had more inmortant things to do....</p><p>There are a couple of images of Neil on the Surface from the TV camera, the 16mm Film camera, and as part of a 70mm Panorama which only shows Neils back.</p><p>So I have taken it upon myself to add a new image to the list.</p><p>In the famous Visor Shot of Buzz, you can just see Neils reflection in Buzz's visor. So I got hold of a very hi-res scan of Buzz and zoomed in on the Visor. The cropped image was quite distorted and spherical, so I then had to do quite a bit of correction, stretching etc.</p><p>Lastly I corrected the gold tint and flipped the image to show a new full frontal photo of neil on the Lunar Surface as Buzz would have seen him.</p><p>The quality isnt great, but it is at least one more photo of Neil on the Moon!</p><p>Goto</p><p>http://moonpans.com/Neil_Armstrong_on_the_moon.htm</p><p>Thanks</p><p>Mike Constantine</p><p>http://moonpans.com</p><p>&nbsp;</p>
 
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MeteorWayne

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<p>Well like you said, it's not great, but I appreciate the effort!</p><p>By father in law worked on the Hasselblads used during the Apollo missions.</p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#000080"><em><font color="#000000">But the Krell forgot one thing John. Monsters. Monsters from the Id.</font></em> </font></p><p><font color="#000080">I really, really, really, really miss the "first unread post" function</font><font color="#000080"> </font></p> </div>
 
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Replying to:<BR/><DIV CLASS='Discussion_PostQuote'>Well like you said, it's not great, but I appreciate the effort!By father in law worked on the Hasselblads used during the Apollo missions. <br />Posted by MeteorWayne</DIV><br /><br />I thought they put an automated camera on the LEM to capture the Astronaughts walking on to the lunar surface.&nbsp; Am i just completely mistaken or was this after Apollo 11? <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font size="3">You wanna talk some jive? I'll talk some jive. I'll talk some jive like you've never heard!</font></p> </div>
 
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<p><BR/>Replying to:<BR/><DIV CLASS='Discussion_PostQuote'><font color="#ff0000">Well like you said, it's not great, but I appreciate the effort!By father in law worked on the Hasselblads used during the Apollo missions. <br />Posted by MeteorWayne</font></DIV></p><p><font size="2" color="#003300"><strong>I agree, I too appreciate the effort. I like the flipped reflection on Buzz's faceplate, showing what he was actually seeing during that very famous shot.</strong></font></p><p><font size="2" color="#003300"><strong>Hi all, I think I'm back now, I've had a very bad spell with my health & may yet have to go to a hospital in London for tests (will probably have to go in June anyway), not to mention scaring the hell out of my wife, she thought she was losing me (its not that serious BTW), but I'm much better now, though still rather tired & a little gibberish.<br /></strong></font><font size="2" color="#003300"><strong>&nbsp;</strong></font></p><p><font size="2" color="#003300"><strong>Replying to:<BR/><DIV CLASS='Discussion_PostQuote'></strong><font color="#000000"><font color="#ff0000">I thought they put an automated camera on the LEM to capture the Astronaughts walking on to the lunar surface.&nbsp; Am i just completely mistaken or was this after Apollo 11? Posted by brandbll</font></DIV></font></font></p><p><font size="2" color="#003300"><br /><strong>AFAIK Apollo 11 was not as well equipped as the the later Apollos. After all Apollo 11 was still largely a technology demonstrator, successfully landing the first humans on the Moon.</strong></font></p><p><strong><font size="2" color="#003300">Andrew Brown.</font></strong></p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#000080">"I suddenly noticed an anomaly to the left of Io, just off the rim of that world. It was extremely large with respect to the overall size of Io and crescent shaped. It seemed unbelievable that something that big had not been visible before".</font> <em><strong><font color="#000000">Linda Morabito </font></strong><font color="#800000">on discovering that the Jupiter moon Io was volcanically active. Friday 9th March 1979.</font></em></p><p><font size="1" color="#000080">http://www.launchphotography.com/</font><br /><br /><font size="1" color="#000080">http://anthmartian.googlepages.com/thisislandearth</font></p><p><font size="1" color="#000080">http://web.me.com/meridianijournal</font></p> </div>
 
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<p>Great effort Mike! Outstanding photo. The photo of Neil accepting the copy came out much better. Was it processed similarly?</p><p>Bill Slugg&nbsp;</p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p> </p> </div>
 
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<p>[QUOTE<font color="#ff0000">]Great effort Mike! Outstanding photo. The photo of Neil accepting the copy came out much better. Was it processed similarly?Bill Slugg&nbsp; <br />Posted by billslugg</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><font size="2" color="#000080"><strong>Hi Bill,</strong></font></p><p><font size="2" color="#000080"><strong>I believe so. Very unusual images & yes I agree 100%, it is an outstanding photo. Superb.</strong></font></p><p><font size="2" color="#000080"><strong>Andrew Brown.<br /></strong></font></p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#000080">"I suddenly noticed an anomaly to the left of Io, just off the rim of that world. It was extremely large with respect to the overall size of Io and crescent shaped. It seemed unbelievable that something that big had not been visible before".</font> <em><strong><font color="#000000">Linda Morabito </font></strong><font color="#800000">on discovering that the Jupiter moon Io was volcanically active. Friday 9th March 1979.</font></em></p><p><font size="1" color="#000080">http://www.launchphotography.com/</font><br /><br /><font size="1" color="#000080">http://anthmartian.googlepages.com/thisislandearth</font></p><p><font size="1" color="#000080">http://web.me.com/meridianijournal</font></p> </div>
 
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I like it, and it definately shows you&nbsp;a good buzz perspective view. Not bad at all for what he had to work with. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p><font size="2" color="#0000ff">""Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." --Albert Einstein"</font></p> </div>
 
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<p><BR/>Replying to:<BR/><DIV CLASS='Discussion_PostQuote'>I thought they put an automated camera on the LEM to capture the Astronaughts walking on to the lunar surface.&nbsp; Am i just completely mistaken or was this after Apollo 11? <br />Posted by brandbll</DIV><br /><br />If you scroll to the bottom of the page, where it says "16mm footage", you can see a still of Neil And Buzz on the lunar surface. This was taken from an Automated camera on the LM. </p><p>By the way thanks to everyone who left kind words.</p><p>The cropped Visor shot of Neil would have been much better, if I had a higher res shot of Buzz to start with, but the best one I found was about 4,000 px x 4,000 px. But then of course, the grain on the film would be limiting factor anyhow...</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Thanks</p><p>Mike Constantine</p><p>http://moonpans.com</p><p>&nbsp;</p>
 
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<p><BR/>Replying to:<BR/><DIV CLASS='Discussion_PostQuote'><font color="#3366ff">The quality isnt great, but it is at least one more photo of Neil on the Moon! <br /></font><strong>Posted by Moonpans</strong></DIV></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Absolutely outstanding effort Mike, all things considered.&nbsp; I particularly like that you were able to get a copy to the man himself.&nbsp; Although he has always seemed to understate his accomplishment, I'm sure Neil was appreciative of having an additional momento of his time on the Lunar surface.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>SK&nbsp; <img src="http://sitelife.space.com/ver1.0/Content/images/store/4/13/742b36b9-1aaf-4525-8d91-191a6d661a72.Medium.gif" alt="" /></p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><em><font size="2" color="#ff0000">Who is this superhero?  Henry, the mild-mannered janitor ... could be!</font></em></p><p><em><font size="2">-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</font></em></p><p><font size="5">Bring Back The Black!</font></p> </div>
 
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