FILMING THE MOON

Taranaki Daily News, 24 July 1929, Page 11

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 lene of a 23in. telescope. The lens, which is 2ft. wide, becomes the lens of the camera. The film show’s dawn creeping 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 shadows 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 2000 separate pictures.

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