Dramatic and precise recreation of Apollo 8's Earthrise photo

[pebble_garden]

Apollo documentaries never fail to thrill me, even short ones. Any KSP player will appreciate this video, I think.

http://youtu.be/dE-vOscpiNc

[astropapi1]

I see you're subscribed to Goddard too.

[pebble_garden]

Since the video contained precise time/position information, I tried to recreate it in Space Engine. I had to fudge the position a bit because SE didn't quite recreate the photo perfectly with those values, but this is damn close. Impressively, Space Engine even has the Earth's rotation right, you can see South America on top and Africa on the bottom, just as in the Apollo photos. North (on the Earth) is to the right, and the Antarctic ice is on the left.

Here is a version with the data overlay showing the time, lat, long, and alt for the image.

Below is the original Apollo 8 photo, for reference.

PS If you want to paste the location directly into Space Engine, copy this and use the F6 > Paste feature. (I think.)

Place "Apollo 8 Earthrise - yet another approx"

{

Body "Moon"

Parent "Earth-Moon"

Pos (-4.851957621484007e-011, -3.117566084844328e-011, -1.528268803825325e-011)

Rot (0.4354673060507831, -0.1841364446287674, -0.2359672377234427, 0.8489884909947362)

Date "1968.12.24 16:39:17.45"

Vel 2.8306346e-012

Mode 1

}

Edited December 21, 2013 by pebble_garden

[pebble_garden]

I see you're subscribed to Goddard too.

Am I? I actually got the link from another website I probably shouldn't name. (smile)

[astropapi1]

Am I? I actually got the link from another website I probably shouldn't name. (smile)

Well, you should. They upload some

from time to time.

That is, if you still use Youtube.

[Simon Ross]

What I hate about this image. When I was a kid, this was the future, 45 years later, we cannot even do this any more