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Auction archive: Lot number 6

Diptych: Blue halo around Alan Bean deploying the ALSEP, Apollo 12, 14-24 Nov 1969

Estimate
£200 - £300
ca. US$267 - US$401
Price realised:
£80
ca. US$107
Auction archive: Lot number 6

Diptych: Blue halo around Alan Bean deploying the ALSEP, Apollo 12, 14-24 Nov 1969

Estimate
£200 - £300
ca. US$267 - US$401
Price realised:
£80
ca. US$107
Beschreibung:

Charles Conrad Two images showing a blue halo around Alan Bean as he carries the scientific equipment to deploy it at the ALSEP site Apollo 12, 14-24 November 1969 Two vintage chromogenic prints on fibre-based paper, each 18 x 18 cm (7 x 7 in), [NASA AS12-46-6807 and AS12-46-6826], with A KODAK PAPER watermarks on the verso, flush-mounted on original NASA HQ boards Footnotes: The first photograph shows Alan Bean using a "barbell" carry to take the Apollo Lunar Scientific Equipment Package (ALSEP) to its deployment site at a distance of about 425 feet from the LM which is visible behind Bean. The second photograph of Bean at the ALSEP site near the seismometer graced the cover of Life magazine, December 12, 1969. 'Everybody was trying to figure out what that aura was. Neither Al or I remember seeing the other guy putting the stuff out, but the film picked it up. The conclusion was that the halos were water-vapor ice crystals coming out of the water boilers on our backpacks' Pete Conrad In fact, the blue glow around Bean was due to a dust smudge on the center of the lens.

Auction archive: Lot number 6
Auction:
Datum:
25 Feb 2022 - 27 Feb 2022
Auction house:
Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions
16-17 Pall Mall
St James’s
London, SW1Y 5LU
United Kingdom
info@dreweatts.com
+44 (0)20 78398880
Beschreibung:

Charles Conrad Two images showing a blue halo around Alan Bean as he carries the scientific equipment to deploy it at the ALSEP site Apollo 12, 14-24 November 1969 Two vintage chromogenic prints on fibre-based paper, each 18 x 18 cm (7 x 7 in), [NASA AS12-46-6807 and AS12-46-6826], with A KODAK PAPER watermarks on the verso, flush-mounted on original NASA HQ boards Footnotes: The first photograph shows Alan Bean using a "barbell" carry to take the Apollo Lunar Scientific Equipment Package (ALSEP) to its deployment site at a distance of about 425 feet from the LM which is visible behind Bean. The second photograph of Bean at the ALSEP site near the seismometer graced the cover of Life magazine, December 12, 1969. 'Everybody was trying to figure out what that aura was. Neither Al or I remember seeing the other guy putting the stuff out, but the film picked it up. The conclusion was that the halos were water-vapor ice crystals coming out of the water boilers on our backpacks' Pete Conrad In fact, the blue glow around Bean was due to a dust smudge on the center of the lens.

Auction archive: Lot number 6
Auction:
Datum:
25 Feb 2022 - 27 Feb 2022
Auction house:
Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions
16-17 Pall Mall
St James’s
London, SW1Y 5LU
United Kingdom
info@dreweatts.com
+44 (0)20 78398880
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