Apollo 11 Anniversary

The 38th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landings has just passed us by - and to celebrate, I decided to do catch some simple videos of the Moon.

It was an amazing event, and though I wasn't alive at the time to watch it unfold it has still provided ample inspiration.

The video was captured quite simply. I used a 10" F5 Newtonian telescope on a Dobsonian mount and let the natural rotation of the Earth pass the Moon through the field of view. I used a Panasonic video camera held afocally up to a 2" 26mm eyepiece with a 2X barlow lens.

Enjoy!

NOTE TO EVERYONE:

I'm not interested in seeing this video fall into the pits of debate between the 'moon hoaxers' and 'moon landing agreeists' (or whatever else you might like to be called). If you don't think Apollo 11 (or the other landings) was real, fine. I don't agree with you, but I'm not going to let that drag this video down with a raging debate. So please don't post comments in this video suggesting that the moon landings were faked. This applies to EVERYONE from both sides of the debate - I don't want to see any comments paying out on the moon hoax here either. Lets keep this civil. If you don't think the moon landings were real, just ignore the beginning text and enjoy the views of the moon (or don't enjoy them if you think they are crap :P). I WILL delete any comments referring to the moon hoax (and so the hoaxers don't think I'm singling them out, I am making this very clear - this applies to BOTH sides of the debate).

Please! Let's keep this civil.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Apollo
• 11
• Moon
• Landings
• Neil
• Armstrong
• Buzz
• Aldrin
• Anniversary
• Telescope

[starview1]

Just checked your siie is it a canon 400d rebel?

[ChrissyoSpace]

Not for any of these videos. For my planetary (and lunar) work I use an old Panasonic video camera held afocally to my telescopes eyepiece.

[sylvanfish]

heard that a meteor shower is happening this week

[ChrissyoSpace]

Yup, the Perseids.

[mason104]

Cool idea!

[bambino291]

This makes me want to revive my telescope. It's been 5 years since I have used it. Great vid!

[starview1]

What model camera are you using?

[johnabcat]

I too watched the space program when I was younger from the Mercury days through Gemini when they tested docking for the first time and all the way to the last Apollo launch. It was wonderful. Speaking of Gemini, don;t forget to catch the Geminid meteor shower this Dec 14th.

[767Captain]

Wanted to drop this note, after watching the vid and reading your notes. Nice job! I WAS alive in 1969 (12 years old) and saw Apollo 11 live. Tremendous. Ditto the DVD set produced by Tom Hanks mentioned below by 'tehStig' -- I have it, is extremely well done.

[tehStig]

Im a big fan of Apollo space program and I just bought "From earth to the Moon" miniseries DVD by Tom Hanks. It has 12 parts and you will not regret buying it. You guys shoud get one, its gone down in price.