Starship Asterisk*

[quote=neufer post_id=297316 time=1574600013 user_id=124483]
[quote=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Bean]


[float=left][img3=The Fabulous Photo We Never Took]https://photorator.com/photos/images/the-fabulous-photo-we-never-took-by-alan-bean-apollo--22036.jpg[/img3][/float]

<<Alan LaVern Bean (March 15, 1932 – May 26, 2018) had planned on using a self-timer for his Hasselblad camera to take a photograph of both Pete Conrad and himself while on the lunar surface near the Surveyor III spacecraft. He was hoping to record a good photo, and also to confuse the mission scientists as to how the photo could have been taken. However, neither he nor Conrad could locate the timer in the tool carrier tote bag while at the Surveyor III site, thus lost the opportunity. After finding the self-timer unit at the end of the EVA, when it was too late to use, he threw it as far as he could. [b][color=#0000FF]His paintings of what this photo would have looked like (titled The Fabulous Photo We Never Took) and one of his fruitless search for the timer (Our Little Secret) are included in his collection of Apollo paintings.[/color][/b]>>[/quote]
[/quote]

Thanks for the additional art, Art! I never knew that Alan Bean made some paintings of his time on the Moon. I'm glad he did, they have a special meaningfulness.

One of my reactions to the sharp lunar photo is "Ah, Alan Bean is wearing the original GoPro camera ... made by Hasselblad, that is."

[quote=neufer post_id=297316 time=1574600013 user_id=124483]
[quote=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Bean]
After finding the self-timer unit at the end of the EVA, when it was too late to use, he threw it as far as he could. [/quote][/quote]
So, that's what frustration in space looks like. :lol2:

[quote=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Bean]


[float=left][img3=The Fabulous Photo We Never Took]https://photorator.com/photos/images/the-fabulous-photo-we-never-took-by-alan-bean-apollo--22036.jpg[/img3][/float]

<<Alan LaVern Bean (March 15, 1932 – May 26, 2018) had planned on using a self-timer for his Hasselblad camera to take a photograph of both Pete Conrad and himself while on the lunar surface near the Surveyor III spacecraft. He was hoping to record a good photo, and also to confuse the mission scientists as to how the photo could have been taken. However, neither he nor Conrad could locate the timer in the tool carrier tote bag while at the Surveyor III site, thus lost the opportunity. After finding the self-timer unit at the end of the EVA, when it was too late to use, he threw it as far as he could. [b][color=#0000FF]His paintings of what this photo would have looked like (titled The Fabulous Photo We Never Took) and one of his fruitless search for the timer (Our Little Secret) are included in his collection of Apollo paintings.[/color][/b]>>[/quote]

I have a friend, Jean, who used to stargaze with her 10" Meade on the Helipad down from Palomar... She has a painting of M42 as if you are looking through the lens...so there is no color but "off greenish"... awesome painting... I will see if I can get a picture, and put it up in the cafe, or something...

Space Art is COOL!!!

:---[===] *

[attachment=0]BeanConrad_Apollo12_960.jpg[/attachment] Stark beauty; yes! Art; yes: also it immortalizes the event! :D

[url=https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap191124.html] [img]https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/S_191124.jpg[/img] [size=150]Apollo 12: Self-Portrait[/size][/url]

[b] Explanation: [/b] Is this image art? 50 years ago, [url=https://www.nasa.gov/feature/50-years-ago-apollo-12-the-journey-home]Apollo 12[/url] astronaut-photographer [url=https://www.nasa.gov/vision/space/features/conrad_ambassador_of_exploration.html]Charles "Pete" Conrad[/url] recorded this masterpiece while documenting colleague [url=https://historycollection.jsc.nasa.gov/JSCHistoryPortal/history/oral_histories/BeanAL/beanal.htm]Alan Bean[/url]'s lunar soil collection activities on [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oceanus_Procellarum]Oceanus Procellarum[/url]. The [url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasacommons/9460247860/in/dateposted/]featured image[/url] is [url=https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap031109.html]dramatic and stark[/url]. The harsh environment of [url=https://moon.nasa.gov/]the Moon[/url]'s Ocean of Storms is echoed in Bean's helmet, a perfectly [url=https://www.mirrorproject.com/]composed reflection[/url] of Conrad and the [url=https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap181022.html]lunar horizon[/url]. Works of photojournalists originally intent on recording the human condition on [url=https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/earth/overview/]planet Earth[/url], such as [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Hine]Lewis W. Hine[/url]'s images from [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Hine#/media/File:Old_timer_structural_worker2.jpg]New York City[/url] in the early 20th century, or [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Bourke-White]Margaret Bourke-White[/url]'s magazine [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Bourke-White#/media/File:Kentucky_Flood_by_Margaret_Bourke-White.jpg]photography[/url] are widely regarded as [url=https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/57501/27-responses-question-what-art]art[/url]. Similarly many [url=https://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/alsj/]documentary[/url] astronomy and [url=https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/index.html]space images[/url] might also be appreciated for their artistic and [url=https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120918.html]esthetic appeal[/url].


[table][tr][td=left][url=http://asterisk.apod.com/discuss_apod.php?date=191123][b]<< Previous APOD[/b][/url][/td] [td=center][url=http://asterisk.apod.com/view_retro.php?date=1124][b]This Day in APOD[/b][/url][/td] [td=right][url=http://asterisk.apod.com/discuss_apod.php?date=191125][b]Next APOD >>[/b][/url][/td][/tr][/table]