I have the front half of a Revell 1/48 scale model of the LM ascent stage
which I never finished assembling. I can almost get an astronaut's-eye
view by looking through the back. The windows are right-angle triangles
with the right angles at the bottom. Normal to the glass is approximately
35 degrees down from horizontal and 45 degrees to the sides. The thin
light-colored line in the dark area on the right side of the photo matches
the angle of the right edge of the window when the left edge matches.
My recollection from seeing the LEM interior mockup in the Smithsonian,
or other photos, is that the white dots along that thin line are fasteners
along the edge of the window. So the dark area just to the left of that
line must be the exterior "nose" of the spacecraft: the avionics bay just
above the front hatch and the panel beside the hatch.
(Why are those panels beside the hatch? Purely structural?)
I wonder if the dark bulge at the bottom is the front foot pad.
The bright white spot at the bottom looks exactly like a white, domed
LED, but I don't think those were in use yet in 1969, and I'm not sure
white LEDs had even been developed yet. Any idea what it is?
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Originally Posted by JayUtah
If that's true, then window would be rotated about 45 degrees to the
optical axis, meaning that a reflected object could be across the cabin.
We can be confident that it's not any closer than about 24 inches to
the window, but it may be as far away as six feet.
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So you are suggesting that because the window is tilted down and to
the side (lower-left edge near; upper-right corner far), the reflected
object may be to the right of the camera, at shoulder-level or above.
James,
In my judgement, the bit of the reflection with the dot in it, that you
point to with the middle green arrow, is no sharper than the rest of
the reflection or the edge of the spacecraft visible outside the window.
-- Jeff, in Minneapolis