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Apollo 17 Moments of Interest / More time corrections?

« on: September 02, 2025, 01:12:54 pm »

I spotted someone posting the view of Eaeth through the sextant telescope and noted the time stamp of 106:53:22.

My own studies of Earth images in Apollo 17 put that view at 084:47:19, where Evans references looking at Earth through the sextant adaptor.

The weather patterns in the image are a match for the Hasselblad photo AS17-148-22763.  Using weather satellite data (and following the sequence of Earth images as they go along) I've put that photo at 081:40:02, rather than the position you have it at, around 61 hours!

The crew describe the Iberian peninsula at 82 hours, something they wouldn't have been able to see at 61!

See here for my version of the sequence of events, which I'm always happy to correct if I'm wrong!

http://onebigmonkey.com/apollo/CATM2/A17/04/a17_day04.html

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Apollo 17 Moments of Interest / New time for a couple of images plus possible glitch?

« on: December 24, 2022, 03:59:01 am »

Hi

I've been reworking my site covering weather satellite data and Apollo imagery, and think there are some photos that are incorrectly located.

The photos concerned are AS117-152-23415 to 23420, which you've placed at around 262 hours into the mission.

Looking at the satellite data and the mission transcripts, I believe they should go around here:

https://apolloinrealtime.org/17/?t=286:18:24 and
https://apolloinrealtime.org/17/?t=290:07:45

together with some 16mm footage taken at the same time.

You can follow the logic here:

http://onebigmonkey.com/apollo/CATM2/A17/13/a17_day13.html

In looking through the transcripts on your site, there's a small chunk missing at both points that appear in the Command module transcripts, but for which you have no audio or written record. Also, it takes a long time to load the site at that second point - is there a problem with the code there?