FILMING THE MOON
DAWN COMES AT 9 MILES AN HOUR CAMERA AND TELESCOPE The first motion pictures of the moon have been taken at Princeton University with a camera attached to the lens of a 23in telescope. The lens, which is 2ft wide, becomes the lens of the camera. The film shows dawn, creeding over the lunar landscape at nine miles an hour, the giant crater of Copernicus, with its walls two miles high, looming in the. centre. The sunrise, is especially' striking because there is no slow warning of the sun's rise such as we see on. the earth. Brilliant sunlight contrasts vividly with dense shallows until the whole light illuminates the valleys and crevasses. The audience see in a few minutes what an astronomer would take several hours to observe through a telescope. The pictures were taken at the rate of one every six seconds and show the sun rising a hundred times faster than it really does., The film of Copernicus peak is 50ft long and contains 2,000 separate pictures.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 24 July 1929, Page 9
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173FILMING THE MOON Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 24 July 1929, Page 9
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