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Lot #7542
Lunar Orbiter 4: Crater Reiner Detail Photograph

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Original vintage semi-glossy 13.75 x 16 silver gelatin photograph of the moon's surface taken by Lunar Orbiter 4 in May 1967, showing a detailed vertical view of the Crater Reiner in the Oceanus Procellarum. Affixed to a 16 x 18 mount, with a typed caption on the reverse, in full: "Lunar Orbiter IV - 24 inch Lens, High Resolution Photograph of Site 28.4 (KI-4137). For this vertical photograph of the crater Reiner and vicinity the orbiter was in a polar orbit at an altitude of about 1700 miles. Reiner is 18 miles in diameter and located in the Ocean of Storms. The area covered by this portion of the S/C frame #157 is about 160 miles on the side, centered at 12°N, 55°W in lunar coordinates." In very good to fine condition, with a light block of toning to the center of the image, and minor edgewear to the mount.

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