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[Apollo 12] Shadows of Pete Conrad and Alan Bean on the Moon. Pete Conrad, 14–24 November 1969, EVA 1. Printed 1969. Vintage gelatin silver print on fiber-based paper [NASA image AS12–46-6843, originally shot on color film]. 25.4×20.3 cm (10×8 in), blank on the verso, numbered “AS12–46-6843” in top margin (NASA / United States Geological Survey, Flagstaff, Arizona). Literature: The View from Space: American Astronaut Photography 1962–1972, Schick and Van Haaften, pg. 41 (variant); Apollo 12 Preliminary Science Report (NASA SP-235), p. 128 (variant). The shadows of two human beings on the surface of another world were photographed for the first time at Middle Crescent Crater. This wonderful picture is a frame from a panoramic sequence shot looking west by Pete Conrad as they observed the rim of this spectacular large subdued crater visited at the end of the first EVA period. The crater is more than 300 m across. Pete Conrad wanted to get the portrait of the two astronauts with a timer but unfortunately didn’t find it while on the lunar surface. “Al and I never quite got the picture that we really wanted to get. What I wanted to do, if we got down to the Surveyor, was stick a pole in the ground and put the camera with a timer on it, so both of us could stand in front of the Surveyor and have our picture taken. All the PR guys would leap on that photograph. It would obviously be the one that they'd publish all over the world, and someone would eventually ask the question: Who took the picture? So I threw a self- actuating timer for the Hasselblad in my pocket. Unfortunately, we had the timer in the bottom of the rock bag, and we spent a great deal of our rest period trying to find the damn thing. We never did find it and the picture never got taken. When I got back to the LM and was putting the last of the rocks in the rock box, why lo and behold, the timer showed up. I was very unhappy and I gave the timer a big heave. I've always thought that about two million years from now when somebody's up there going through the site of our landing and everything's so well documented, they're going to come up with this little blivet that has no part number on it and they're not going to know what the hell it was.” Pete Conrad (Schick and Van Haaften, pg. 41). From the mission transcript when the photograph was taken: 118:17:06 Conrad: Get right to the edge of this crater and photograph it. Get a pan in it, and then we won’t have to come back this way. Look at that. That crater’s spectacular isn’t it? Wow, a monster! [...] 118:17:59 Bean: Why don’t you go ahead and pan… (Garbled under Pete) 118:18:00 Conrad: Yeah, let me get to 74 (feet focus). 118:18:03 Bean: Okay. 118:18:04 Conrad: Seventy-four... 118:18:05 Bean: You ought to have two fifty (that is, 1/250th of a second exposure). 118:18:06 Conrad: f/8, right? 118:18:08 Bean: (Two) Fifty, and you’re looking... 118:18:09 Conrad: Okay. 118:18:09 Bean: ...down-Sun. You ought to have (f/)8 over there, and (f/)11 right there. And (f/)8 over there. 118:18:14 Conrad: Yeah. (Counting pan frames) 1, 2, 3... 118:18:19 Bean: Beauty. 118:18:20 Conrad: ...4. You can... better believe it. 5. Now, let me go back to f/11 (for down-Sun). 118:18:27 Bean: Okay. 118:18:28 Conrad: We’ll have to smoke to get back to that LM. We’re a long way. Condition Minor softening to top left corner, glossy print in excellent condition. Preview In Lyngby Auction Space, 15 November 2023 Category Photos ▸ Vintage photographs Selling 15 November at 6:41 pm Estimate 4,000–6,000 DKK
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