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On 2002-03-28 09:05, JayUtah wrote:
On Apollo 15 (the first TV of a LM takeoff), he didn't try to anticipate, and the LM soars out of sight almost immediately.
And on Apollo 16 he tried to anticipate, but got the timing a bit wrong. (The tilt and zoom rates were constant.) And on Apollo 17 he got it right, allowing us to follow the LM ascent through several seconds past pitchover.
And incidentally, after pitchover you are looking right up the LM's engine bell and you can see the glow of the engine. It's a little bright dot.
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I have a recollection that on one of the missions the camera followed the LM for quite some time, until it was a dot, in fact. I recall the dot would move slowly across the screen, then abruptly in the other direction as the camera moved to keep up with it. Or is my memory failing me?