Good job Pirx!<br><br>The 'objection' that photos of planets and stars would be impossible to fake from the moon is a sure giveaway the particular Hoax advocate lacks sufficient grounding in even the most basic principles of elementary astronomy to know what's reasonable and what isn't. Why is this single fact so hard for MH'ers to get? The view of the Milky Way, extra-galactic stars and galaxies would be identical from the Earth and Moon. Even the position of visible planets against the backdrop of stars would essentially be identical. The at-most several arc-second difference between the actual position of the closest planets mars and venus as seen from the earth and the moon would be almost impossible to compute -- and I think the degree of expected error would be greater than the result. (The earth travels further in its orbit around the sun in one day than the distance the moon is from the earth).<br><br>There are many dozens of photos of the earth taken by the Lunar crews -- usually they were taken by the Command Module in orbit or from the LEM in descent. The image of the earth from the moon had no project significance and so wouldn't have been of much interest -- compared with the detailed views of the earth the astronauts had from high-orbit soon after launch and the novelty of the moon-landing experience and their busy schedule, the 5-arc-degree-size view of the earth would not be noteable at all -- as well as prone to being obscured by the sun's glare and filtered-out by the gradated-filter upper-section of their gold-plated face-shield visors -- unless they looked directly at it. But I did find one photo taken by Apollo 11 of the earth as seen from the lunar surface with the upper LEM in foreground.<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://history.nasa.gov/ap11-35ann/kippsphotos/apollo.html">history.nasa.gov/ap11-35a...pollo.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://history.nasa.gov/ap11-35ann/kippsphotos/6550.jpg">history.nasa.gov/ap11-35a...s/6550.jpg</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br>AS11-44-6550<br><br><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://history.nasa.gov/ap11-35ann/kippsphotos/6550.jpg" style="border:0;"/><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--><br><br>Earthrise viewed from lunar orbit prior to landing <br>*<br><br><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://history.nasa.gov/ap11-35ann/kippsphotos/5924.jpg" style="border:0;"/><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--><br><br>http://history.nasa.gov/ap11-35ann/kippsphotos/5924.jpgAS11-40-5924<br>LM ascent stage and Earth overhead <br>________________________<br>http://history.nasa.gov/ap11-35ann/kippsphotos/6642.jpgAS11-44-6642<br>LM approaches CSM for docking / earthrise in b.g.<br>July 21, 1969 <br>*<br>http://www.apolloarchive.com/apollo_gallery.html -- Fairly comprehensive archive of all Apollo flights with quick thumbnail preview feature, choice of usually 44K, 102K or 260K high-res. images including many non-optimal and reject photos seldom seen in commercial/public productions, ie. end-of roll, half-frame, over-under exposures, smudged and sun-flare images. Photos listed and presented in order they were taken, many panorama sequences providing 180 and 360 degree views. <br>http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a12/images12.html <br>Nasa's Apollo 12 Image library is also a good link for Lunar images. While it doesn't have a preview function, it offers a chronological timeline and descriptions of events, photo-details, experiments and other observations/comments that are esp. useful when used with the apollo archive gallery cited above:<br><br>Apollo 11:<br>AS11-36-5404 view of LM and Earth during trans-Lunar coast 20010404 <br>http://www.apolloarchive.com/apollo/gallery/as11-36-5404_t.jpg<br>NOTE: These photos were taken before, are part of the same earthrise sequence re: the image that Tigre63 posted:<br>AS11-44-6547 Earthrise sequence - Earth emerges over lunar horizon 20021020
http://www.apolloarchive.com/apollo/gal ... 59_t.jpg**<br>From:
http://www.apolloarchive.com/apollo_gallery.html<br>Apollo 12: Earthrise sequence, Craters 276/273<br>http://www.apolloarchive.com/apollo/gallery/AS12-47-6879_t.
jpghttp://www.apolloarchive.com/apollo/ ... 6881_t.jpg<br><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://www.apolloarchive.com/apollo/gallery/AS12-47-6881_t.jpg" style="border:0;"/><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--><br><br>http://www.apolloarchive.com/apollo/gallery/AS12-47-6882_t.
jpghttp://www.apolloarchive.com/apollo/ ... 6895_t.jpg<br>Crater II, Earth crescent low on horizon, sequence:<br>http://www.apolloarchive.com/apollo/gallery/AS12-47-6871_t.
jpghttp://www.apolloarchive.com/apollo/ ... 6874_t.jpg<br>Cool picture close-up of Surveyer 3 with LEM in background taken at 15-ft focus, showing footpad-imprints when spacecraft bounced on landing:<br>http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/alsj/a12/AS12-48-7099.jpg<br>Fantastic pan sequence taken by Pete through 360 degrees, from down-sun to up-sun with several extreme sunflare-washed images and back, around the LEM site<br>http://www.apolloarchive.com/apollo/gallery/AS12-47-6941_t.jpg --down-sun<br>http://www.apolloarchive.com/apollo/gallery/AS12-47-6942_t.
jpghttp://www.apolloarchive.com/apollo/ ... 6947_t.jpg <br>http://www.apolloarchive.com/apollo/gallery/AS12-47-6948_t.
jpghttp://www.apolloarchive.com/apollo/ ... 6951_t.jpg --Up-sun<br>*<br>Apollo 16: View from Lunar Excursion Module of Command Space Module and Earth over lunar horizon:<br>http://www.apolloarchive.com/apollo/gallery/as16-113-18289_t.
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