Hey all, I decided to do a crash course in Adobe After Effects and put this video together as my first project. It covers the UV photography taken from the Lunar Observatory in Apollo 16 and shows how those photographs prove man went to the moon. Check it out and leave your comments:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1aixi_Sj24&fmt=6

A special shoutout to William Keel for helping me put this together. His skeptical Inquirer article on this subject was invaluable in helping me understand this complicated subject. I hope I can open up the subject to a whole new group of people.

Let me second that pointer. Nice video and illustration of how to show which stars should have been behind the Earth in the Apollo 16 UV images. In fact, he started from a different image and set of stars than shown in the article, which is just what the author had in mind

Good job. I enjoyed it.

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Excellent work. The UV photography is an often-forgotten experiment.

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Good video. One minor nit is that the Hubble was launched in 1990 so it had to be designed years earlier. Perhaps Dr. Caruthers (sp?) helped design some of the instruments that were fitted on one of the repair missions. The good doctor sounds like a very impressive man with a remarkable list of achievements to his credit.

So why can't I see the video?

I clicked on the link, and got the audio fine (BTW it works almost perfectly as an audio presentation!), but didn't get any video, or any sight of the comments section.

I only got 7 seconds of video before it returns to the start...

Excellent work. Thank you for doing this.

I had no difficulties viewing it.

Superb debunking. I am sure that the conspiracy buffs will create another excuse of how this was faked.

If you are having problems viewing the video, try viewing the normal resolution video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1aixi_Sj24 The hi-res versions of videos on youtube are still technically in the testing stage. But because of the details of the stars, it really looks much better in the hi-res version if you can get it working. If it streams for a few seconds and then starts over that sounds more like a problem with buffering and you might want to clear your cache and try again. Thanks again guys for checking out the video. I'm probably going to be doing a follow-up based on the few photos of Venus that were captured from the moon. Other than that I'll be tackling the famous Mexican air force UFO case http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRvWRrf__XA (which was another great debunking I think I read in Skeptical Inquirer), and I'll admit up front, when I first saw that video I was pretty impressed and.. well... I thought it was a UFO for sure

Seen it now, cheers!

And I cannot believe the ignorance m4c0me's in his comments. *shakes head* I wonder why you bother responding to him.

I saw it being built at JPL, in fact, though of course I cannot remember when. ('89?)

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"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

I saw the Hubble in a Lockheed facility in Sunnyvale, California in 1988*. There were technicians working on it in a clean room but it looked essentially finished. The Hubble was launched in April of 1990 after several years of delays due to problems and the Shuttles being grounded following the Challenger explosion. Too bad no one bothered to test the optics during that time.

*The facility was just across the street from a defense contractor company named ESL. A couple hours after I viewed the Hubble, a man named Richard Farley went into ESL and shot 11 people, killing 7 of them. After a long standoff, he surrendered to police in exchange for a sandwich - a turkey sub from a restaurant called "Togos". I'd eaten that same sandwich for lunch. It was a good sandwich but not worth surrendering over. Farley was sentenced to death in 1991 and is still on death row.

I tend to remember stuff like that.

Well, duh. It's, like, in ultraviolet, dude!

(I'm sorry. The set-up was just too attractive to resist.)

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Nice work on the video. I think its a worthy rebuttal for the conspiracy theorists. I'll probably post links to it the future.

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Awesome vid, but what was with that guy venting about Apollo 13?

From what I got from his posts he was miffed about the Apollo 13 Moon walk photographs...

There were no Apollo 13 Moon walk photographs taken.

Or am I just confuzzled?

None that I know of. . .
The only Apollo 13 moon walk photo's, would be stills and publicity shots from Jim Lovell's(Tom Hanks) daydream in the movie 'Apollo 13'. I have used Googled UV photo's from the mission in Youtube arguments.

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Comments at youtube:

This is the first time I ever went head to head with a psychotic moron(s) and man, I'm not sure I could ever do it face to face, I might become violent.

I figured out that they like to grasp any minor inconsistency one person said or a group have said and use that as evidence.

excellent analysis mr pierce!

might I ask what software you used in your diagrams of capricornus? or are they independent pictures/animation? They're really good!

Cheers

i think its awsome.. i know very little about the stars and planets and vids like this help. I want to start star gazing so i can tell m y brother a few things that i have learned. I just need to get a good telescope.

This is funny. I really enjoyed the video. I thought you did a great job. I didn't know that YouTube was experimenting with hi-res and the whole time I was watching it I was amazed at how good it looked. "Wow, how did he do that!?!" Ok, so now I'm not as impressed with your video making genius because I no longer think that you discovered some way to make incredibly clean videos, but I still think you did a great job.

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I would say an outstanding job. It was clear, concise, informative AND interesting.

I also appreciate that it gives Dr. Carruthers some of his due credit.