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Lunar Grand Prix at Descartes; telephotographs from station 2 at Spook Crater: Stone Mountain; South Ray Crater, April 16-27, 1972, EVA 1

Charles Duke [Apollo 16]

Name: Lunar Grand Prix at Descartes; telephotographs from station 2 at Spook Crater: Stone Mountain; South Ray Crater, April 16-27, 1972, EVA 1
Brand: Charles Duke [Apollo 16]
Price: 1300.00 GBP
Availability: SoldOut

Price Realised GBP 1,625

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Closed: 20 Nov 2020

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Lunar Grand Prix at Descartes; telephotographs from station 2 at Spook Crater: Stone Mountain; South Ray Crater, April 16-27, 1972, EVA 1

Charles Duke [Apollo 16]

Price Realised GBP 1,625

Closed: 20 Nov 2020

Price Realised GBP 1,625

Closed: 20 Nov 2020

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588 a
Charles Duke

Telephotographs along the summit ridge and the base of Stone Mountain, taken from station 2

Apollo 16, April 16-27, 1972, EVA 1, 124:27:22 GET

Two unreleased photographs, vintage gelatin silver prints on fiber-based paper, each 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), numbered “NASA AS16-112-18197 and AS16-112-18226” (NASA MSC) in black in top margin

588 b
Charles Duke

Telephotograph of the bright South Ray Crater illuminated by the lunar Sun, taken from station 2 at Spook Crater

Apollo 16, April 16-27, 1972, EVA 1

Vintage gelatin silver print on fiber-based paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), numbered “NASA AS16-112-18234” (NASA MSC) in black in top margin

588 c
Taken by a 16mm Maurer camera held by Charles Duke

Lunar Grand Prix at the Descartes landing site

Apollo 16, April 16-27, 1972, EVA 1, 124:57:10 GET

Vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based Kodak paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), with NASA MSC caption and “A Kodak Paper” watermarks on the verso, numbered “NASA S-72-37002” in red in top margin

20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in)

588 c
Reynolds, p. 189.

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Lot Essay

These frames from a telephoto panoramic sequence taken by Duke from station 2 at Spook Crater show the summit of the 500-m high Stone Mountain (first photograph, quite blurred) and its base (second photograph, reasonably steady).

There was no viewfinder on the 500mm telephoto Hasselblad camera and it had to be aimed by sighting along the top of the camera body and lens.

124:23:57 Duke: (To Young).(Since you) just do LPM (Lunar Portable Magnometer), John and I’m gonna do the 500 (mm photography), I won’t put your bag back on. Okay?
124:24:53 Duke: Thirty. Okay. (Pause) That’s gonna be cross-Sun, so I’m going to do it (the 500mm photography) at f/8.

“The 500 worked great. It was a little bit more difficult to stabilize it than I thought. I used the ring sight and fired off the pictures.”
Charles Duke (1972 Technical Debrief, from the ALSJ mission transcript at 124:28:40 GET)

This photograph is a frame of a 500mm telephoto panoramic sequence taken by Duke from station 2 near Spook Crater, located 550 meters west of the LM. South Ray was located about 6.3 km south south west of station 2.

“South Ray Crater is approximately 700 meters in diameter and approximately 120 meters deep, with a bright system of rays of ejecta. The astronauts observed that the rim of South Ray was very bouldery, and reported that it would have been difficult to drive there on their rover” (NASA SP-315, p. 5.3).

124:28:40 Duke: Hey, Tony. I’m going to take a few (pictures) of South Ray here, with the 500. We got a good view of it here. [...]
124:29:30 Duke: I guess I take a few too many. I had a triple, vertical, stereo pan on Stone Mountain, and about five frames on old South Ray. Over.

The rover gets a speed workout by John Young at the end of the first EVA (and not the third as
mentioned in the NASA caption) to test how the vehicle handles in the Moon’s one sixth gravity.
Young is driving toward the LM, with Smoky Mountain on the horizon on the right side of the
picture. The dust being thrown up by the wheels is clearly visible. The views is a frame from motion picture film exposed by a 16mm Maurer camera held by Charles Duke.

124:52:30 Duke: Okay, John. We need to stop out here for the Grand Prix. [...]
124:52:39 Young: Here’s a flat place, sort of. [...]
124:55:09 Duke: Okay. Well, wait. Why don’t you just drive towards the LM. Let me move out here, and you just drive towards the LM, turn around, and then drive towards Stone. [...]
124:55:20 Duke: Let me get the camera. Let me get it set here now. It’s 24 (frames per second). [...]
124:56:58 Duke: DAC (16mm camera)’s on; Mark. (Pause) That max acceleration?!
124:57:06 Young: No.