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Took me 3 months to crack a moon landing photo anomaly
I was digging into some Apollo 11 photos last year and noticed a shadow angle that just didn't add up with the sun's position. Figured it was a debunkers dream, right? Turns out it was just a lens flare from a specific camera model (the Hasselblad 500EL) and a reflective surface on the lander. Three months of cross-referencing NASA manuals and forum threads later, I finally matched it to a known shooting sequence from mission clock times. Anyone else run into a photo quirk that took forever to trace back to a boring explanation?
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laura_knight5418d ago
Read somewhere that the same lens flare issue showed up in some Apollo 16 photos too, just took folks longer to spot because the angle was different. Makes you wonder how many of these "smoking gun" details are really just camera tricks nobody thought to check first. Good on you for tracking it down proper though.
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