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LUNAR ORBITER I A group of 28 photographs, 20 x 16 inches, gelatin silver prints,
20 July 2016, 13:00 EDT
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LUNAR ORBITER I
A group of 28 photographs, 20 x 16 inches, gelatin silver prints, from Lunar Orbiter I, comprised of 26 medium resolution and 2 high resolution images, including 12 duplicate images among the medium res, mission and frame number in margins, some curling and light marginal creasing or wear, sold with a group of 15 negatives from the same mission.
Images from the first of five Lunar Orbiter missions. Lunar Orbiter I was designed to survey the moon for Apollo landing sites; the photographs were taken netween August 18 and 29, 1966.
The Lunar Orbiter cameras were a technological feat that almost defies belief. Each Orbiter carried a Kodak camera equipped with two lenses, a lower resolution (or wide-angle) 80 mm lens, and a 610 mm high-resolution (or telephoto) lens. Each exposure resulted in two simultaneous photographs, a wide-angle view, and a telephoto view. The exposures were made onto a roll of 70 mm film, which was moved during exposure to compensate for the spacecraft's velocity.
The film was then processed on board the Orbiter, by a method Kodak invented called Bimat—somewhat akin to the Polaroid process. Next, the developed film passed through an analog scanner which transmitted the data back to Earth by radio (technology largely derived from television broadcasting and developed by the R&D wing of CBS). The data was gathered by three NASA Deep Space Network receiving stations: Goldstone, CA; South Africa, or later Madrid, Spain; and Woomera, Australia. The data was then sent on to the Army Map Service and NASA Langley. The video signal was converted into variations of light on a cathode ray tube, and the image produced was captured on positive film by a 35 mm camera. Each film positive is known as a framelet, and the Orbiter's original photograph is recreated by placing the framelets side by side. That film positive is considered zero-generation, and from it were produced negatives, from them contact prints, and so forth. Complete list of images available on request.
See Bowker & Hughes, Lunar Orbiter Photographic Atlas of the Moon (Washington D.C.: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1971).
Images from the first of five Lunar Orbiter missions. Lunar Orbiter I was designed to survey the moon for Apollo landing sites; the photographs were taken netween August 18 and 29, 1966.
The Lunar Orbiter cameras were a technological feat that almost defies belief. Each Orbiter carried a Kodak camera equipped with two lenses, a lower resolution (or wide-angle) 80 mm lens, and a 610 mm high-resolution (or telephoto) lens. Each exposure resulted in two simultaneous photographs, a wide-angle view, and a telephoto view. The exposures were made onto a roll of 70 mm film, which was moved during exposure to compensate for the spacecraft's velocity.
The film was then processed on board the Orbiter, by a method Kodak invented called Bimat—somewhat akin to the Polaroid process. Next, the developed film passed through an analog scanner which transmitted the data back to Earth by radio (technology largely derived from television broadcasting and developed by the R&D wing of CBS). The data was gathered by three NASA Deep Space Network receiving stations: Goldstone, CA; South Africa, or later Madrid, Spain; and Woomera, Australia. The data was then sent on to the Army Map Service and NASA Langley. The video signal was converted into variations of light on a cathode ray tube, and the image produced was captured on positive film by a 35 mm camera. Each film positive is known as a framelet, and the Orbiter's original photograph is recreated by placing the framelets side by side. That film positive is considered zero-generation, and from it were produced negatives, from them contact prints, and so forth. Complete list of images available on request.
See Bowker & Hughes, Lunar Orbiter Photographic Atlas of the Moon (Washington D.C.: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1971).