Apollo 12




Apollo-12: (Yankee Clipper & Intrepid) 
aunched 11/14/1969,   Landed 11/19/1969,   Splashdown 11/24/1969

Commander - Charles Conrad,
CM Pilot - Richard Gordon,
LM Pilot - Alan Bean


The Intrepid landed in the Sea of Isles area close to the landing site of the Surveyor # probe..  
Explored the area, including the probe, and brought back Lunar soil samples. 
Spent total of 31 hours, 31 minutes on the Lunar surface, of which 7 hrs 45 min were EVA.



All Images acquired at Big Woodchuck Observatory using a Meade LX200GPS @ f10, with either a Astrovid-2000 or StellaCam-Ex 1/2" chip astro-video camera with IR filter.


10/24/2012 (negative image finder) Astrovid-2000





11/21/2012 @ f10 (StellaCam-Ex)





11/21/2012 - 1.5x Barlow (StellaCam-Ex)





11/21/2012 - 2.8x Barlow (StellaCam-Ex)





11/21/2012 - 2.8x Barlow & 2x digital zoom (StellaCam-Ex)





Finder Chart: from Antonin Rukil's "Atlas of the Moon", chart#42.

a great atlas, buy it!






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