A collection of Polaroid views of the lunar surface seen through the sextant, Apollo 12, November 1969 108 vintage Polaroid gelatin silver prints, full sheets 10.8 x 19cm (4 ¼ x 7 1/2in), each numbered in ink on recto, some also with latitude notations £400-600 Provenance: From the collection of a former Director of the Lunar Mapping Division, Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston, Texas. Extremely rare; produced for internal NASA use only. With the original NASA envelope marked as containing Apollo 12 sextant photos. Taken from the Command Module, possibly in search of the LM landing site. Despite being fitted with state-of-the-art technology Apollo spacecraft still relied on sextant and telescope for navigation by the stars. The sextant also had a camera attachment which captured circular images with 28 power magnification; these Polaroids were almost certainly taken at MSC, Houston, from images transmitted directly from the Apollo 12 CM.
A collection of Polaroid views of the lunar surface seen through the sextant, Apollo 12, November 1969 108 vintage Polaroid gelatin silver prints, full sheets 10.8 x 19cm (4 ¼ x 7 1/2in), each numbered in ink on recto, some also with latitude notations £400-600 Provenance: From the collection of a former Director of the Lunar Mapping Division, Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston, Texas. Extremely rare; produced for internal NASA use only. With the original NASA envelope marked as containing Apollo 12 sextant photos. Taken from the Command Module, possibly in search of the LM landing site. Despite being fitted with state-of-the-art technology Apollo spacecraft still relied on sextant and telescope for navigation by the stars. The sextant also had a camera attachment which captured circular images with 28 power magnification; these Polaroids were almost certainly taken at MSC, Houston, from images transmitted directly from the Apollo 12 CM.
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