Restored Apollo 11 moon landing video - courtesy PRC media + Auz space base, duh

Digitally remastered footage of the 1969 Apollo 11 moonwalk has been shown publicly for the first time..... some of which was found in Australia.... The video highlights of the three-hour moonwalk include a clearer picture of Neil Armstrong’s descent down the stairs of the lunar module, which was taken from the Parkes Radio Observatory and the Honeysuckle Creek tracking station outside Canberra on 21 July 1969 (Australian time). The long-forgotten video footage was uncovered during a decade-long search for the original recordings of the moonwalk, and involved lengthy detective work and clandestine meetings, says astronomer and telescope operator John Sarkissian from the CSIRO at Parkes, who headed up the search..... At the time of the Moon landing, three stations - Goldstone in California, Honeysuckle Creek in Canberra, and Parkes in New South Wales - simultaneously recorded the events onto magnetic data tape. The direct recordings were not of broadcast quality, says John, so they had to set up a regular TV camera pointed at a small black-and-white TV screen in the observatory to obtain higher-quality images that could be relayed to television stations around the world. "Original signals weren't HD quality TV. They weren't even broadcast quality, even by 1969 standards," he says. "They were better than what was broadcast to the world; that's why we went looking for them...". The Goldstone camera settings to convert Neil's descent down the stairs were not correct and ...

Channel: YouTube Video Length: 4m 58s Date Found: Thu, Oct 07 2010 6:21 AM Category: Technology Date Produced: Thu, Oct 07 2010 5:57 AM View Count: 0