The crew took this photograph with the 80mm lens as they were still more than 30,000 nautical miles away from home.
*Our landing was very westerly on the Moon, which means the Earth was getting smaller. On our way back we saw a lot of crescent Earths. No matter how hard you looked you could not see in that dark part, even if you put glasses up to your eyes. It was a funny feeling; you knew the Earth was there, but you never could see anything but the crescent (Schick and Van Haaften, p.104)*
From the mission transcript as the crew woke up on the final day before landing:
208:04:50 Conrad: We – Houston, we just got our first glimpse of you this morning, and there’s not very much of you out there.
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*NASA Apollo Hasselblad Kodak Raw Color Image Source:*
https://tothemoon.im-ldi.com/gallery/apollo/12/6#AS12-51-7581
The crew took this photograph with the 80mm lens as they were still more than 30,000 nautical miles away from home.
*Our landing was very westerly on the Moon, which means the Earth was getting smaller. On our way back we saw a lot of crescent Earths. No matter how hard you looked you could not see in that dark part, even if you put glasses up to your eyes. It was a funny feeling; you knew the Earth was there, but you never could see anything but the crescent (Schick and Van Haaften, p.104)*
From the mission transcript as the crew woke up on the final day before landing:
208:04:50 Conrad: We – Houston, we just got our first glimpse of you this morning, and there’s not very much of you out there.