Mission Report 11.1.3 does not support your interpretation Jack by the hedge
Apollo 11 Mission report section 11-6:
"11.1.3 Analysis of Transmitted Geologic Data
Location of the landing site.- The landing site was tentatively identified
during the lunar surface stay on the basis of observations transmitted
by the crew.
...
A description by the Commander of a double
crater about 6 to 12 meters in size and south of the lunar module shadow
plus the identification of West crater, the hill to the west, and the 21-
to 24-meter crater reported behind the lunar module, formed a unique pattern
from which the landing site was determined to within about 8 meters.
...
The returned sequence-camera descent photography
confirmed the landing point location. The position corresponds to coordinates
0 degree 41 minutes 15 seconds north latitude and 23 degrees
26 minutes 0 second east longitude."
(My highlighting.) Back to square one, it appears.
Mission Report 11.1.3 does not support your interpretation Jack by the hedge, specifically does not support your contention that that the landing site coordinates were determined before the Eagle's launch. Your quote references a report made by Armstrong in real-time, while he was allegedly on the lunar surface, but its analysis was not carried out until after the astronauts' returned to earth.
The discussion in section 11.1.3 of the Mission Report most certainly does not support the claim that the Eagle's landing site, Tranquility Base, was identified as being located at 00 41 15 north and 23 26 00 east in real time, that is, located at those coordinates prior too the Eagle's alleged launch from the surface of the moon.
Here are the relevant texts from the Apollo 11 Voice Transcript and the Apollo 11 Mission Report; section 11.1.3(both documents are quoted below). With regard to the latter document(Mission Report section 11.1.3), no where in the text/discussion of real-time coordinate determination does one find the coordinates, 00 41 15 north and 23 26 00 east, and so, with regard to the discussion of the "landing site" as below, we are correct in finding this "landing site description" to be a reference to a general area near the West Crater. Specific landing site coordinates are not mentioned anywhere in this section, except with reference to their post flight determination. As a matter of fact, the document refers the reader to the very section (5) which includes the table I have been drawing our readers' attention to, Table 5-IV, where the only appearance of Tranquility Base coordinates occur for the accelerometer reconstruction and the 16mm photography analysis, both post flight assessments, both determinations made long after the astronauts "returned to the earth".
All of the specific landing site coordinates are found in table 5-IV of this same Mission Report. The real-time solutions do not include 00 41 15 north and 23 26 00 east. We may conclude with confidence that the description below of the landing site's general area, is just that, a description of the landing site's general area. The coordinates 00 41 15 north and 23 26 00 east were not obtained in real time as confirmed by the ongoing discussion of the true coordinates(still wrong by the way) mentioned in the Voice Transcript as the astronauts are alleged to be returning to earth AFTER the landing. Again that quote from the Apollo 11 Voice Transcript;
"TIME 06 07 33 59
"CC: Roger. For 64 thousand dollars, we're still trying to work out the location of your landing site, Tranquility Base. We think it is located on LAM-2 chart at Juliet 0.5 and 7.8. Do you still have those charts on board? Over.
Armstrong: Yes. Stand by one. They're packed.
CC: Roger. You may not have to unpack it. The position which I just gave you is slightly west of West Crater. I guess it's about two-tenths
of a kilometer west of it, and we were wondering if Neil or Buzz had observed any additional landmarks during descent, lunar stay, or ascent which would confirm or disprove this. One thing that we're wondering about is that if you were at this position, you would have seen the Cat's Paduring ascent just up to the north of your track. Over.
Armstrong: We were looking for the Cat's Paw, too, thinking we were probably downrange, beyond the Big V. But I think that it's likely that that might have been West Crater that we went across in landing, but - Stand by.
Armstrong: We're hoping, Bruce, that our 16-mm film was working at that point in descent, and we'll be able to confirm our touchdown position. We thought that during ascent we might be able to pick up some recognizable objects close to the landing site, and we did see a number of small craters, and crater rows, and things like that, which we may be able to pick out after the fact, but we haven't been able to yet." "
So on the way back to earth, after the launch, the cap com/Houston trajectory personal, believe Tranquility Base to be at Juliet 0.5 and 7.8. In Juliet coordinates, Tranquility Base is 0.65/7.54. So a day after the EVA, they still do not know where Tranquility Base is, and this reading confirms the prior assessment that the 11.1.3 Mission Report discussion is a discussion of the general landing site area, a relatively unknown area near west crater. The descriptive report is quoted below, word for ford from the Mission Report. Again, note how the reader is referred to section 5 for the actual numbers, and again, 00 41 15 north and 23 26 00 east does not appear in that table except in the form of coordinates obtained by way of post flight analysis, 16mm photography study and accelerometer reconstruction.
As I have pointed out previously, the real-time coordinates closest to Tranquility Base appearing in the Apollo 11 Mission Report table 5-IV are the rendezvous radar coordinates 0.676 north and 23.43 east. Close to Tranquility Base which is expressed in this coordinate form as 0.6875 and 23.505. So the rendezvous radar is close, but still 1200 feet away give or take from Tranquility Base at 0.6875= 00 41 15 north and 23.505= 23 26 00 east.
"11.1.3 Analysis of Transmitted Geologic Data
Location of the landing site.
The landing site was tentatively identified during the lunar surface stay on the basis of observations transmitted by the crew. The Commander reported avoiding a blocky crater the size of a football field during landing, and observed a hill that he estimated to be from 1/2 to 1 mile west of the lunar module. The lunar module was tilted 4.5 degrees east (backward) on the lunar surface.
During the first command and service module pass after lunar module landing (about 1 to 1-1/2 hours after landing), the first of several different landing site locations, computed from the onboard computer and from tracking data, was transmitted to the Command Module Pilot for visual search (see section 5.5). The first such estimate of the landing site was northwest of the planned landing ellipse. The only site near this computed location that could have matched the reported description was near North crater at the northwest boundary of the landing ellipse. However, this region did not match the description very closely.
Later, computed estimates indicated the landing site was considerably south of the earlier determination, and the areas near the West crater most closely fit the description. These data were transmitted to the Command Module Pilot on the last pass before lunar module lift-off, but the Command Module Pilot's activities at this time did not permit visual search. The location just west of West crater was confirmed by rendezvous radar tracking of the command module by the lunar module near the end of the lunar stay period and by the descent photography."
