Saturday 30 January 2010

One Small Step

Last night I stepped outside to take this photo of the full moon. And today I've annotated the image with the landing sites of the 6 successful Apollo missions, dating from Apollo 11 (20th July 1969) to Apollo 17 (11th December 1972). The only one of the moon landings I actually remember watching was Apollo 14 on 9th February 1971, whilst incarcerated in the children's ward of Cumberland Infirmary.

Apollo 13 was the one unsuccessful mission, immortalised in the Tom Hanks line - "Houston, we have a problem", after one of the Service Module oxygen tanks exploded en route to the moon.

3 comments:

Deeko said...

Very nice - glad to see you're putting the new lens to good effect! The moon's amazing when it's at it's perigee...

Chris said...

Thanks - I'm sure could have got it much clearer if I had a tripod. I took the photo handheld with a 300mm lens which was bit wobbly!

Eddie said...

Great image Chis. What could be achieved from with the same lens under a dark sky from outside a remote bothy (on a tripod)?

Hope you get that injury sorted soon.