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In his recent YouTube video, “The cross-eyed camera bis,” YouTube user, hunchbacked,
claims he found an anomaly in this Apollo 16 photo showing Charlie Duke near Plum Crater.
As John Young was taking the photo, the CTV is transmitting a video of the two astronauts
back to earth.
But, according to Hunchbacked, if you take a “close-up” of the photo, you supposedly
see that the CTV is not “oriented toward the astronauts.”
Hmm?
I don’t know which is sharper, his eyes or his imagination.
Blown up this much, it’s hard to tell what you’re looking at.
Perhaps if hunchbacked knew what to look for, he might have done a better job of figuring
out where the GCTA was pointing.
From the front of the GCTA you notice a cable poking out the right side of the CTV and a
white *** just below it on the elevation drive.
Although there were a number of variations made to the GCTA, the one used on Apollo 16
looked like this.
... And this.
... ... And this.
And like this, from the front.
Comparing these two photos, you see that even when the GCTA is rotated at a small angle,
the long hood and the CTV body become noticeably wider than the TCU they’re sitting on.
Now compare the more direct photo to the photo hunchbacked thinks is pointing off to the left.
See any similarities?
Perhaps if we compare the suspect photo to a more direct shot of the GCTA we can cut
through the noise a little bit better.
Notice how the top cover of the CTV extends out slightly to our right.
Notice the partial cable and cable connector on the CTV.
Notice the white *** on the elevator drive.
Also, as the astronauts were more than sixty yards from the rover when the photo was taken,
there’s noticeable horizontal motion blur as Young was spinning to take his pan.
This blur is even more noticeable in the frame just preceding the one that caught hunchbacked’s
attention.
The suspect photo is very fuzzy due to the motion blur and the extreme enlargement, 1600%.
Most of the details are lost, but if you know what the components of the GCTA looked like,
you can easily see them in both photos.
The CTV.
The camera cradle.
The TCU.
Oh! And let’s not forget the lens hood.
You also have to consider that the high-res photo that hunchbacked borrowed from the ALSJ
has less information than the smoothed enlargement suggests.
Zooming in on the CGTA in an editor like Microsoft Paint shows the CTV as eight rows and 13 columns
of pixels.
That’s not much, but even then, you can still tell the CTV is pointing right at’cha.
Or, at least, it was pointing at John Young as he was taking the photo.
Sorry, hunchbacked, but an observant third-grader could rip your videos to shreds.
Chow moon hoax conspirators,
wherever you are.