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Auction archive: Lot number 2312-8201

[Apollo 15] Telephoto panorama of Hadley

Man & Space
23 Mar 2023
Estimate
DKK40,000
ca. US$5,724
Price realised:
n. a.
Auction archive: Lot number 2312-8201

[Apollo 15] Telephoto panorama of Hadley

Man & Space
23 Mar 2023
Estimate
DKK40,000
ca. US$5,724
Price realised:
n. a.
Beschreibung:

[Apollo 15] Telephoto panorama of Hadley Canyon. David Scott [Apollo 15], 26 July - 7 August, 1971, EVA 3. Unique hand mosaic, collage of ten vintage gelatin silver prints on fiber-based paper numbered “NASA AS15–89-12018 to AS15–85-12043” (NASA MSC) in black in top margin, overall size 33×104 cm (13×40.94 in). (10). Exhibited: Copenhagen, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, The Moon: From Inner Worlds to Outer Space, September 2018-January 2019 and February-May 2019; exhibition catalogue, p. 125, no. 155. On the lunar surface, the astronauts’ movements were encumbered by spacesuits and they were unable to align the cameras with a view-finder. Because they were wearing helmets, the cameras were mounted on the chests of the spacesuits. Without the benefit of a view-finder, crews were trained how to point, shoot, turn slightly, point and shoot again until a panorama of overlapping photographs was generated. During the last three missions they even used a telephoto lens to shoot distant features. Once the crews returned to Earth, the images captured with this technology had to be printed and then hand-assembled into David Hockney like panoramic collages that provide a spectacular boots-on- the-ground view of the lunar landscape. This extraordinary telephoto panorama taken at station 9A showcases the far wall of Hadley Canyon seen from its opposite edge at station 9A. Photographed with the 500-mm telephoto lens, the rille appears much narrower than its actual one-km width. The area shown in the panorama is approximately 800 meters wide. The base of Hill 305 is in the right background beyond the mare surface. The edge of Hadley Canyon (from where Scott took this telephoto panorama) is visible in the foreground. “Scientists offer several explanations for the mysterious canyon that wanders through this waterless, windless environment. Flowing volcanic materials may have cut the gorge or gases erupting through cracks could have left the 70-mile-long fissure. By a third theory, the rille may have opened when the cooling Imbrium lava shrank” (National Geographic, February 1972, “The Mountains of the Moon”, pp. 242–243). “Oh, the beauty! The spectacular beauty! Oh, yeah, that is, to coin a phrase, mind boggling. It’s absolutely mind boggling, because you cannot believe that it is really that spectacular. I didn’t expect the beauty of it. That’s the one thing everybody talks about, and you can’t appreciate it until you get there and see it.” David Scott (Chaikin, Space, p. 66) “It [the Moon] had a majestic feeling about it. And one says this after talking about how it’s dusty, it’s gray, nothing’s growing, nothing of any real beauty. But yet, take it all together with the vastness of it, the sense of history, the boulders, and the elevations we had on our flight and certainly some of the other flights, Hadley for example, it really is majestic, in the sense of a desolate mountain desert type of a setting.” Apollo 14 astronaut Alan Shepard. (Chaikin, Voices, p. 66). From the mission transcript when the photograph was taken: 165:26:44 Scott: Okay. First, I’ll get you a horizontal strip along the two outcrops. [...] 165:27:24 Scott: And, I’ll get you a horizontal strip of the...I guess I have to say there is more accumulation of talus at about the 60-percent- from-the-top level, that I can see, Joe. If I think about it for a minute, I can see more talus accumulation there, so that there might be some change in slope, but it’s not apparent by looking at the slopes. And I’ll get you a horizontal strip there.
Condition

Auction archive: Lot number 2312-8201
Auction:
Datum:
23 Mar 2023
Auction house:
Bruun Rasmussen Auctioneers
Bredgade 33
1260 København K
Denmark
info@bruun-rasmussen.dk
+45 8818 1111
+45 8818 1112
Beschreibung:

[Apollo 15] Telephoto panorama of Hadley Canyon. David Scott [Apollo 15], 26 July - 7 August, 1971, EVA 3. Unique hand mosaic, collage of ten vintage gelatin silver prints on fiber-based paper numbered “NASA AS15–89-12018 to AS15–85-12043” (NASA MSC) in black in top margin, overall size 33×104 cm (13×40.94 in). (10). Exhibited: Copenhagen, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, The Moon: From Inner Worlds to Outer Space, September 2018-January 2019 and February-May 2019; exhibition catalogue, p. 125, no. 155. On the lunar surface, the astronauts’ movements were encumbered by spacesuits and they were unable to align the cameras with a view-finder. Because they were wearing helmets, the cameras were mounted on the chests of the spacesuits. Without the benefit of a view-finder, crews were trained how to point, shoot, turn slightly, point and shoot again until a panorama of overlapping photographs was generated. During the last three missions they even used a telephoto lens to shoot distant features. Once the crews returned to Earth, the images captured with this technology had to be printed and then hand-assembled into David Hockney like panoramic collages that provide a spectacular boots-on- the-ground view of the lunar landscape. This extraordinary telephoto panorama taken at station 9A showcases the far wall of Hadley Canyon seen from its opposite edge at station 9A. Photographed with the 500-mm telephoto lens, the rille appears much narrower than its actual one-km width. The area shown in the panorama is approximately 800 meters wide. The base of Hill 305 is in the right background beyond the mare surface. The edge of Hadley Canyon (from where Scott took this telephoto panorama) is visible in the foreground. “Scientists offer several explanations for the mysterious canyon that wanders through this waterless, windless environment. Flowing volcanic materials may have cut the gorge or gases erupting through cracks could have left the 70-mile-long fissure. By a third theory, the rille may have opened when the cooling Imbrium lava shrank” (National Geographic, February 1972, “The Mountains of the Moon”, pp. 242–243). “Oh, the beauty! The spectacular beauty! Oh, yeah, that is, to coin a phrase, mind boggling. It’s absolutely mind boggling, because you cannot believe that it is really that spectacular. I didn’t expect the beauty of it. That’s the one thing everybody talks about, and you can’t appreciate it until you get there and see it.” David Scott (Chaikin, Space, p. 66) “It [the Moon] had a majestic feeling about it. And one says this after talking about how it’s dusty, it’s gray, nothing’s growing, nothing of any real beauty. But yet, take it all together with the vastness of it, the sense of history, the boulders, and the elevations we had on our flight and certainly some of the other flights, Hadley for example, it really is majestic, in the sense of a desolate mountain desert type of a setting.” Apollo 14 astronaut Alan Shepard. (Chaikin, Voices, p. 66). From the mission transcript when the photograph was taken: 165:26:44 Scott: Okay. First, I’ll get you a horizontal strip along the two outcrops. [...] 165:27:24 Scott: And, I’ll get you a horizontal strip of the...I guess I have to say there is more accumulation of talus at about the 60-percent- from-the-top level, that I can see, Joe. If I think about it for a minute, I can see more talus accumulation there, so that there might be some change in slope, but it’s not apparent by looking at the slopes. And I’ll get you a horizontal strip there.
Condition

Auction archive: Lot number 2312-8201
Auction:
Datum:
23 Mar 2023
Auction house:
Bruun Rasmussen Auctioneers
Bredgade 33
1260 København K
Denmark
info@bruun-rasmussen.dk
+45 8818 1111
+45 8818 1112
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