A blue dot which may not have been purposefully drawn at K .2 and / longitude 5.6.
As above, I pointed out that with the LAM 2 Apollo 11 flown map of Michael Collins, if one looks for 00 41' 15" north and 23 26' 00" east given the map's labeling and scaling, one finds those coordinates according to my estimation/calculation at K .2 and LAM 2 map longitude line 5.549.
Then I found this, completely independent of my own work. From the Apollo 11 multimedia site;
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/images11.html#Maps
Text by Eric Jones and Ken Glover with regard to the LAM 2 flown map. Pay special attention to the very last sentence. Eric Jones and Ken Glover;
"Flown CMP Map LAM-2 ( 2.7 Mb or 0.3 Mb )
Mike Collins used this map to mark the estimated LM locations given to him by Houston. Compare with the sextant locations plotted in Figure 5-14 (below) from the Mission Report. The grid spacing is 1 km and the actual landing site is near J.65 and 7.52. Scan courtesy Bob Craddock and Allan Needell, National Air and Space Museum. The landing ellipse is centered at map coordinates L.0/14.0 and extends north and south 2.4 km from that point and 9.4 km east and west. Mike Collins marked a number of locations with combinations of lines, arrows, circles, and one ellipse using either pencil or a felt-tipped pen. Most of these are associated with estimated LM locations that were given to him at various times during his solo operations in lunar orbit.
Beginning at the upper left, there is a penciled ellipse labeled 'Auto Optics' and including craters at N.7/7.2 and M.0/6.7 that Mike mentions at 106:43:08. Owen Garriott gave Mike settings for Auto Optics operation of the sextant at 105:19:59; and, at 106:11:49, about 35 minutes before Mike's next pass over the landing site, Bruce McCandless told him "We'd like you to let the Auto optics take care of the tracking and devote your energies to trying to pick out the LM (visually) on the lunar surface."
The 'Auto Optics' ellipse also contains a small circle at L.7/6.6 and attached arrow from the southwest drawn with a felt-tipped pen. I have not been able to associate this circle with anything in the transcript or in Figure 5-14 (below) from the Apollo 11 Mission Report.
Immediately to the right of the upper end of the 'Auto Optics' ellipse, Mike has drawn circle, probably around the 'tiny crater' at M.7/8.0 that he mentions at 104:42:48.
Below the 'Auto Optics' ellipse, a penciled arrow leads to a circle drawn at K.8/6.3. At 112:22:20, Mike requested an estimated LM position for his pass over the landing site at 112:31:52. Bruce McCandless gave him K.9/6.3 and, as can be seen in Figure 5-14 (below), the actual landing site is just outside the sextant field-of-view for this location.
Below and to the right, an arrow drawn with a felt-tipped pen and labeled 'Last Bst Pos Prior L/O' leads to a dark spot at J.5/7.7, which is the estimated location Ron Evans gave Mike at 123:55:23, about a half hour before LM lift off. This location is only about 230 meters from the actual landing site at J.65/7.52. Farther down the map, Mike circled craters at E.3/7.6 and E.8/7.7 and to the left of the E.3/7.6 crater wrote 'SW Rim'. These two craters are in the area he examined during the pass over the landing site at 110:33:40 using the sextant in automatic mode and a set of coordinates Bruce McCandless gave him at 110:18:39. Mike reported the negative results at 110:36:58 but mentioned a "suspiciously-small, white object" on the southwest rim of the E.3/7.6 crater.
Finally, there is a small, blue dot at about K.2/5.6, which may not have been purposefully drawn."
Well knowing what we all know now, it would appear we have something to tell Eric Jones and Ken Glover now do we not? The small blue dot at K .2/5.6 represents "Tranquility Base" at 00 41' 15" north and 23 26' 00" east. Not an accident at all is it now?
So just as I said, this phony map does not feature unique coordinate sets. As J .65 and longitude 7.52 were declared to be "Tranquility Base" with latitude 00 41' 15" north and 23 26' 00 " east, despite at the same time 23 30' 00" east being found at longitude line 7.6, this created a situation in which we would find a
"second Tranquility Base". This one, this second Eagle landing site, not based on a seeming declaration as was the position at J .65 and longitude 7.52, but rather, as based on my measurements, yours, or anybody's. Given the way the grid was set up, any one of us would find/will find "Tranquility Base", 00 41' 15" north and 23 26' 00" east, right there at K .2 / 5.6(or for me, 5.549 to be exact). No surprises there really, that is the way the grid is set up. That is how the grid hangs ove the lunar surface, with 00 41' 15" north and 23 26' 00" east right on top of K .2 and longitude 5.6.
And lookie there, we see someone did mark K .2 and longitude 5.6 with a blue dot. Any one of you want to give Eric Jones an email and let him know what's up? Eric there, the editor of the famous Apollo Lunar Surface Journal, thinks K .2 / 5.6 may well not have been marked purposefully. Guess we better tell him what we know guys, about the grid being skewed, the fake map, the fact that given the skewing, the fakery, 00 41' 15" north and 23 26' 00" east is right on top of K .2 and longitude 5.6, and so that is Tranquility Base too! Just like J .65/7.52 is the Eagle's landing site, so too is K .2/5.6. Coordinate confusion? Heck yeah!!!!
I of course will have much to say about this "questionably purposeful" blue dot at K .2 / 5.6 in upcoming posts.
Phony map? YOU BETCHA"!!!!!
