The pictures in this pan (assembled by Brian McInall) are AS11-40- 5850 to 5858.
Frame 5850 shows the jettison bag under the descent stage. Frame 5852 shows the older, eastern component of a double crater below Neil's LM window and frame 5853 shows the younger, western component. A view of the double crater from the cabin is provided by two photos that Neil took after the landing: AS11-40- 5847 and 5848. David Harland has created a mini-pan from these two images. The pair of craters consists of an older, 10-m-diameter crater with its western half overlain by a younger, 12-m crater. The double crater can also be picked out in the Lunar Orbiter 5 mosaic that covers the landing site.
The down-Sun frame, AS11-40-5854 may have been taken at f/11 and the rest at f/5.6 as per the decal on the top of the magazine, which is now on display at the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum. Smithsonian photo by Eric Long; courtesy of Allan Needell.
At some point after Neil finishes the pan, he moves a step or two away from the ladder to the west and north and takes AS11-40- 5859, 5860, and 5861 toward the south. Dave Byrne has used the first two of these in a mini-pan.
Figure 3-15 ( 164 k ) from the Apollo 11 Preliminary Science Report shows some detail of the photographic activities that the astronauts conducted during the EVA.
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