Astronomy Picture of the Day -- Apollo 17 VIP Site Anaglyph

NASA ^ | March 15, 2014 | (see photo credit)

[SunkenCiv]

[Credit: Gene Cernan, Apollo 17, NASA; Anaglyph: Erik van Meijgaarden]

[SunkenCiv]

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[Bryan24]

I hope they locked the doors....

[smokingfrog]

That buggy should be worth a lot of money by now. Old enough to be a classic, and very low miles. (May need a new battery.)

[dr_lew]

Get out your red/blue glasses and check out this stereo scene from Taurus-Littrow valley on the Moon!

Why, I've got them right here!

But you know, there's something funky about the LM, wrt the anaglyph that is. What's up with that?

[Kirkwood]

Yeah, I can’t get a good stereo view of the LM. The red image seems to be displaced too much. The Rover looks great though.

[Telepathic Intruder]

Maybe an artifact of too much camera jiggling.

[dr_lew]

I think this was made from two separately taken snapshots.

I suppose the image pair of the anaglyph was not ideal, being composed of images with differing distance as well as lateral position, and that the anaglyph was optimized in some sense for the rover, which looks real good.

Not sure how all that works out though.

[lafroste]

saved for when I find my red and blue lens 3D glasses (weirdly enough I went to a 3D movie tonight and left my glasses, but my son kept his pair).

[Flick Lives]

Wouldn’t it be funny if we return to the moon in 10 to 15 years, revisit the site and find the wheels gone and the lunar buggy sitting up on blocks.

[Young Werther]

Marvin's been there done that!!!!

[Lawgvr1955]

Anyone have an idea where I can get 3D glasses short of stealing them from a theatre?

[Rodamala]

I always prefer that on the computer they don’t make these 1950’s 3D movie glasses type viewing... but traditional stereoscopic twin imagages... that way I can cross my eyes and see it in full 3D magnificence w/o glasses.

[SunkenCiv]

Funk was big in 1972.

[dr_lew]

The component pictures seem to be AS17-143-21932 and AS17-143-21933

[Telepathic Intruder]

I’ve made anaglyphs myself. Of course you need two pictures, taken from a slightly different location but at the same angle. You convert one to red and the other to cyan and merge them. It’s tricky to get it just right though.

[dr_lew]

Here's an anaglyph I made from the two Apollo images using "Anamaker", a free online download that I got a few months ago. Works real nice. I used Paint.net ( also a free download that I've had for some time ) to rotate and align one of the images with the other along the horizon. Only took a few minutes.

It came out small, but it looks pretty good. It seems a little crisper than the APOD, if I do say so myself!

The LM looks cleaner, for one thing ...

[Telepathic Intruder]

It’s very nice, yes. This, by the way, is why it’s so much harder to find programming jobs these days. Software companies have taken over and provide at a far lower price the sort of stuff you’d have to hire a programmer to do in the past. Of course software companies employ programmers, but another reason is that the technology changes so fast you need a Maserati to keep up, and I’m a used Ford Chevy.

[dr_lew]

I let my son explain it all to me.

[dr_lew]

Well I realized it was small because I was using reduced images ( duh! ) so I got the good ones and redid the anaglyph, and I think this one is definitely better than the APOD:

If you look around the frontmost tire ( without the glasses ) you can see the difference. Also note the "microphone" looking thing at center shows no displacement in the APOD, placing it at "infinity". I'm thinking they used some kind of fancy canned software which didn't quite do the right thing.