Digitally remastered footage of the 1969 Apollo 11 moonwalk has been shown publicly for the first time..... some of which was found in Australia....
The video highlights of the three-hour moonwalk include a clearer picture of Neil Armstrong's descent down the stairs of the lunar module, which was taken from the Parkes Radio Observatory and the Honeysuckle Creek tracking station outside Canberra on 21 July 1969 (Australian time).
The long-forgotten video footage was uncovered during a decade-long search for the original recordings of the moonwalk, and involved lengthy detective work and clandestine meetings, says astronomer and telescope operator John Sarkissian from the CSIRO at Parkes, who headed up the search.....
At the time of the Moon landing, three stations - Goldstone in California, Honeysuckle Creek in Canberra, and Parkes in New South Wales - simultaneously recorded the events onto magnetic data tape. The direct recordings were not of broadcast quality, says John, so they had to set up a regular TV camera pointed at a small black-and-white TV screen in the observatory to obtain higher-quality images that could be relayed to television stations around the world.
"Original signals weren't HD quality TV. They weren't even broadcast quality, even by 1969 standards," he says. "They were better than what was broadcast to the world; that's why we went looking for them...".
The Goldstone camera settings to convert Neil's descent down the stairs were not correct and showed an image too dark to see. So the decision was made to switch to the Honeysuckle Creek footage, and after eight minutes, to the Parkes footage, which was used for the rest of the moonwalk.
It was this clearer footage, which had not been seen since 1969, that John and his search team were hoping to recover from the NASA archives, where the tapes had been sent.
Unfortunately, they hit a roadblock. "We discovered, to our horror, that in the 1970s and 80s NASA had taken the tapes in the national archive and erased them all to record other missions."
About 250,000 tapes from the Apollo era, likely including the 45 tapes of the moonwalk, are likely lost forever....
After some digging, they found that in the 1980s someone made a VHS tape of the Honeysuckle Creek magnetic tape, "a bootleg copy if you like, that was severely degraded," John says. A copy of that copy was given to an Apollo enthusiast who was tracked down to Sydney by the search team. This footage included a brighter and clearer version of Apollo 11 mission commander Neil Armstrong's descent to the lunar surface and was used to replace the darker Goldstone images at the start of the broadcast.
At the awards ceremony, select scenes from the entire restored video will show Neil's first step on the Moon's surface, Buzz Aldrin's decent of the lunar module ladder, the plaque reading and the raising of the US flag..... http://www.australiangeographic.com.a...
An Australian awards ceremony made history when it publicly screened digitally restored extracts of the Apollo 11 mission to the moon for the first time.
Edwin 'Buzz' Aldrin, who walked on the moon, attended the Australian Geographic Society Awards in Sydney as guest of honour, and watched highlights of the re-mastered footage shown.
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Walking On The Moon - Apollo 11by STVLT175,008 views
@Fennoscandie - So if you were presented with that camera problem by NASA, what would you do? Throw your hands up in the air and say "It's impossible, I can't think of any way to adapt the cameras so that it's possible for the astronauts to use", or wouldl you seek solutions and insist the astronauts practice with the adapted camera for as long as possible? Well, NASA did the latter :)
Hence a good explanation of the problems and solutions can be found here at 17:00 onwards;
/watch?v=t4tk-3KeYNQ
MTMind2 4 days ago
@MTMind2 Almost incidental to the main astronaut tasks was PHOTOGRAPHY. Each astronaut had his own camera. (Apart from the Apollo 11 EVA.) It was a square-format specially-built Hasselblad. It was mounted on a chest-plate for the astronaut to operate. The astronaut had to MANUALLY SET THE SHUTTER SPEED and apertures while wearing bulky, pressurized gloves and without being able to see the controls. The cameras had NO VIEWFINDER, so the astronaut could only guess at what was being photographed.
Fennoscandie 4 days ago
@Fennoscandie - Thanks :) For me, I believe extraterrestrial life is likely, since even bacteria on a planet in a distant galaxy is life. ET's may or may not be intelligent, but I doubt any are aware of our existance as yet. I agree about UFOs, where many see something they don't understand and seek an extraterrestrial reason, however that's the same type of reasoning that has people seeking alternative explanations for things they don't understand regarding the Apollo missions.
MTMind2 4 days ago
@MTMind2 numerous 'bogeys' are mentioned in the apollo audio/videos, then they change frequencies so we can't hear the rest of conversation. Personnaly, I think extra-terrestrials exists and are smart enough to stay clear from our dumbasses(humans), as for UFOs, there's a good chance most of them are top-secret military aircraft or a natural phenomenon we don't understand yet.
Fennoscandie 5 days ago
@Fennoscandie - Eh? That's a strange question to be asking given our discussion so far, hence I can't help the feeling that your question is loaded :-)
I'm ready to give an answer, but first, perhaps you can help me out by explaining the connection (if any) between UFOs and the moon landings and (since you brought it up) what your beliefs are regarding UFOs.
MTMind2 5 days ago
@MTMind2 do you beleive in UFOs ?
Fennoscandie 5 days ago
@Fennoscandie - No, you're just repeating the latest 'fad' in moon hoax claims, which is based upon very poor logic, where the calculations don't even take into account 2 astronauts taking the photos. There's nothing cut from public viewing, it's all available if you know where to look! You can obtain ALL the footage via DVDs from the Spacecraft Films website (I have many of them), which features hours upon hours of good quality footage on the moon that you won't find on youtube :)
MTMind2 5 days ago
@MTMind2 try searching for 'timeline of Pictures/videos' taken on the moon, you'll eventually find that there are too many pictures for the amount of time on the surface, and sure they lost one video but there's many hours cut out from public viewing. note: only 7 000 views... goes to show "we couldn't care less"
Fennoscandie 5 days ago
@Fennoscandie - Later Apollo missions used good quality TV cameras, hence the quality of the footage is rather good (people often upload footage at a lower quality online, but you can find good quality footage if you search for it!). And many thousands of photos were taken by astronauts and all can be seen in Apollo archive websites, it's the 'perfect' photos that make the cover of magazines, the average/poor majority of photos remains in the archives. Btw, your last point is completely false :)
MTMind2 6 days ago
They better bring some 'Super HD' cameras if they ever go to the moon again, I'm tired of watchin' these crappy quality 'restored' to less-crappy video. Funny how every photograph taken on the moon appeared in-focus and perfect. and a lot of photos (too many actually) don't coinside with what they were doing.
Fennoscandie 2 weeks ago