Re: Canary Islands 1972 images
Subject: Re: Canary Islands 1972 images From: wdenig
Dr. Vazquez ‐ This is most helpful. Thank you, Bill Denig
On 9/27/2012 11:03 AM, [email protected] wrote:
Dear Dr Dening,
After a short inspection I am quite sure these images were obtained with a Razdow telescope at a NASA tracking station (Apollo program) at Maspalomas in the south of the nearby island of Gran Canarias (see http://www.esa.int/esaMI/ESOC_40_Anniversary /SEMMFE7CTWF_1.html).
I hope this info can be of some help
Best regards
Manuel Vazquez Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias
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wdenig
Dr Manolo Vazquez, I am sorry to bother you in your retirement but I have issue on which you may be able to shed some light. Please see my note to Professor von der Lühe. He suggested that you may recall the source of these data. I would appreciate your consideration of this matter. Thank you, Bill Denig
‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Subject: Solar data in the World Data Center for Solar‐Terrestrial Physic, Boulder Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 16:23:59 ‐0600 From: wdenig
Prof. Dr. Oskar von der Lühe ‐ I am trying to track down the provenance of a very limited set of solar imagery data from the Canary Islands for 1972 which are available at:
Full Disk ‐ http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/nndc/struts/results?op_0=eq&v_0=Canary_Is_FullDisk& t=102827&s=12&d=8&d=100&d=9
Off‐band ‐ http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/nndc/struts/results?op_0=eq&v_0=Canary_Is_FullDisk& t=102827&s=12&d=8&d=100&d=9
Close‐up ‐
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http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/nndc/struts/results?op_0=eq&v_0=Canary_Is_Closeup& t=102827&s=12&d=8&d=100&d=9
Do these look familiar to you?
Thank you for your time, Bill Denig
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European experts operate Apollo tracking network
Valeriano Claros-Guerra served as INTA Deputy Director and as Operations and Communications Supervisor at Maspalomas Tracking Station, part of NASA's Manned Spaceflight Network on Grand Canary Island, from 1969 to 1975. He supported a number of space programs, including Apollo, ERTS (Earth Resources) and Skylab. He joined ESA in 1989, serving as Director of the Villafranca del Castillo Tracking Station and as ESA's Representative in Spain, until 2004. In his final year with ESA, he served as Station Manager at Cebreros station. He retired from ESA in 2005.
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Maspalomas station 1960s
Training local experts
Maspalomas MSFN USB antenna for Apollo communications in 1969.
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Maspalomas station control room in the 1960s
V. Claros-Guerra (center) during Maspalomas dismantling in July 1975
Release date: 11 March 2011
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