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Space/Science » in reply to re: Apollo 12 pan from APOD

Shadows...

Sol

aka the Sun.

Take note of the deformation of the lens, but a clear 360 degree response is produced from a single illumination direction. Crisp shadows, all converging in the down-sun direction.

Note the peculiar anti-sun reflection from the Moondust (seen best in the "aura" around the shadow of the photographer) (a phenomenon predicted from the appearance of the Moon and the lacvk of limb-darkening)

[And, to complicate matters, the image is a mosaic of individual pis over differtent days, with different sun angles!]

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