Apollo 11 TV Polaroids from HSK

showing the slow-scan television picture (10 frames per second, 320 lines resolution)
from the Moon on a monitor at
Honeysuckle Creek Tracking Station, near Canberra, Australia
Monday 21st July 1969
(Australian time)

Adapted from Colin Mackellar's Honeysuckle Creek site. Used with permission.



Scanned by John Saxon (Operations Supervisor at Honeysuckle during the Apollo missions), August 2003.


The descriptions (most likely by Bernard Scrivener)
are those written on the back of the Polaroids and are blue bold.
Timing notes by Colin Mackellar are in red. The images have been cleaned up and enhanced.


Notes:
The first frame was taken while the international TV audience was still seeing poor quality pictures from Goldstone.

At least the second and third frames were taken during the period Sydney Video and the international audience were taking Honeysuckle and before Parkes came online.

Note the lights at Honeysuckle reflected at the top of the screen.

Link to larger versions at bottom of this page.


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Armstrong descending
44s after TV circuit breaker in (everyone else is seeing Goldstone, which has just switched from an upside-down picture)

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Armstrong on Lunar soil
actually, immediately before (just after “now and then, it’s very fine”), 2m02s after TV on
(switch to HSK came at 1m44s)

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Armstrong

4min 36sec after start of TV
“some evidence of rays emanating”

(just before the international audience switches back to Goldstone)

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Armstrong




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Armstrong depositing contingency sample
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Armstrong talking Aldrin down
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Armstrong checking Aldrin’s position
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Armstrong getting ready to take Aldrin’s photo
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Aldrin descending
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Aldrin reaching for the moon
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Footsteps on the moon (after camera repositioning)

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Aldrin

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Aldrin setting up solar wind experiment
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Aldrin removing cover from solar wind experiment
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Armstrong returning after setting up camera
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Armstrong (right) and Aldrin
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Armstrong and Aldrin saluting after the President’s speech

Larger versions (scanned by John Saxon at 300dpi) but without the white border on the Polaroids.

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