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Dennis Wingo: Status August 28, 2013 late afternoon.
A pretty good day today, ran tapes G5-23-30 excepting 28-29 which are duplicates of W5-019-20. The tally for today.
G5-023, partial capture LOV-049M, 050H
G5-024, partial capture LOV-050H (completes image), complete capture 048M, partial capture 049H
G5-025, partial capture LOV-049H (almost completes image)
G5-026, partial capture LOV-051M, complete capture 052H
G5-027, partial capture LOV-050M, 049M, complete capture 051H
G5-028, not captured duplicate of W5-019
G5-029, not captured duplicate of W5-020
G5-030, partial capture LOV-067M, 068H
The overall status of the capture of Lunar Orbiter 5 is pretty good. To date we have captured all 163 of the Woomera tapes. We have captured 32 (two from earlier captures) of 158 of the Goldstone tapes. We have also previously captured 6 of 156 of the Madrid tapes.
This means that for all of LOV there are 477 tapes for which we have now captured 201 total tapes captured. It looks like about 2 out of ten of the Goldstone tapes are duplicates so out of 126 remaining that means that at a minimum we really only need to capture about another 102 tapes. For Madrid lets figure that four out of ten are duplicates because of the overlap between both Woomera and Goldstone. So out of 152 remaining Madrid tapes we need to capture about 90 tapes. Thus we have about 192 out of 477 tapes to go so we are basically about 60% through our LOV captures. Lets hope this head holds out!

Dennis Wingo: Status, mid day August 27, 2013
Ran a tape yesterday, G5-011. The next two tapes (G5-012,013) are duplicates of W5-005, 006. We are going to run a few tapes today just to kee the ball rolling, we have kinda gotten stacked up as our framelet count for lunar orbiter is now up to over 64,000! (at 126 megabytes per finished framelet, that is a LOT of data i.e. 8 Terabytes).
G5-011, partial capture LOV-018M, 016M complete capture 019H
G5-012, not needed, duplicate of W5-005
G5-013, not needed, duplicate of W5-006
G5-014, partial capture LOV-029H, 028H complete capture 027M
G5-015 is in process now.
End of Day August 27, 2013
Ran several more tapes and found another couple that I don’t have to run. Starting to look like a pattern which makes sense as the end of a Goldstone pass overlaps with the beginning of a Woomera pass. When we get to the Madrid tapes we will have their overlaps with Woomera and Goldstone already done….
Tapes for today since G5-014
G5-015, partial capture LOV-031M, complete capture 032H
G5-016, complete capture LOV-030M, 031H
G5-017, partial capture LOV-029M
G5-018. partial capture LOV-033M, complete capture 034H
G5-019, partial capture LOV-032M,033H
G5-020, partial capture LOV-033H (completes image), partial capture 031M (completes image [from G5-015])
G5-021, partial capture LOV-035M, partial capture 036H (completes image [from W5-012])
G5-022, not captured, overlap with W5-013
Most of G5-021 was an overlap with W5-012 but we still got some framelets that we did not have before, enough to complete another image.
So, we are making progress. With other things I have to do this week we are not going to get a lot done, but we will next week. I still want to get up to about G5-050 this week, which should be doable.

Dennis Wingo:
— Status morning of August 23, 2013.
Yesterday I was rummaging through all of our heads and we found one that has some significant life left on it. We went through a long period where we had an anomalous failure that we could never explain where the machine would work just fine but the demodulator would be off frequency, thus preventing the reconstruction of an image. When we would change a head, most of the time it would fix it. Thus we had heads with some life left on them but they would not work.
One of Ken’s friends (Terry) who used to work on FR-900’s told us what was going on and since then we have been able to use some of these half or quarter or three quarter worn heads. We are putting another head on today and hopefully it will have enough life on it to get some more images.
We do this as the head that is mostly dead has had problems on two tapes out of six, and that is anomalously high, so maybe this will solve those problems…..
— Status, end of Day August 23, 2013, 47 years after LO-1-101H
Ran 2.5 tapes today. We had a problem with G5-004 and G5-006 yesterday that we have confirmed is not head related. We can capture these images from Madrid tapes or the other end of Goldstone tapes later.
We have captured G5-007 and G5-010 today. G5-008 and 009 are duplicates of W5-003 and 004. This is what we expected to start seeing but it is gratifying anyway.
G5-007, partial capture LOV-013H, 011M
G5-010, partial capture LOV-019M, complete capture 020H
Next week we will start running more tapes in earnest since we have a head with more meat on it installed.

Dennis WIngo: Well, can’t resist continuing on. Running G5-003 right now. Looking good so far. There are two tapes in this sequence so I am going to do both of them today.
G5-003, partial capture LOV-008H, 006M
One thing that I am very much looking forward to is to assemble an image and make a photographic print of one of these full moon pictures of the far side of the Moon. With the greater dynamic range of our grey scales, these images should look spectacular!
End of Day
Well, can’t resist continuing on. Running G5-003 right now. Looking good so far. There are two tapes in this sequence so I am going to do both of them today.
G5-003, partial capture LOV-008H, 006M
One thing that I am very much looking forward to is to assemble an image and make a photographic print of one of these full moon pictures of the far side of the Moon. With the greater dynamic range of our grey scales, these images should look spectacular!