I was 15, living at home, and working in the Carleton computing center that summer. We had a B&W TV, but that’s all they were broadcasting from the moon anyway.

I remember making a reel-to-reel tape of the commentary of the landing, and shooting many B&W negatives of the TV screen as things progressed. I still have the negatives, but now we have access to much better pictures from the cameras the astronauts had with them.

That is to say, the accidental appearance near each other in our skies of things various distances away — the moon, Venus, and Jupiter, in this case.

Not terribly satisfactory photographically; not sure if I had the wrong range of exposures, or just haven’t found the right processing yet.  This is a 7-stop HDR sequence.

I should dig out the B&W pictures of the TV screen I shot that summer, back in 1969.

But I didn’t have a tripod with me today.

Well, we’ll just have to see.

Downtown Minneapolis across Lake Calhoun.

Moon trail on Lake Calhoun.