Solar Corona // C-Print

NASA's Apollo Program astronauts are renowned for being some of the world's greatest explorers, adventurers, pilots, and scientists, but rarely are they portrayed as some of the world's most important photographers. Get a firsthand look at their remarkable journey with this captivating chromogenic print. Sourced from a series of 46 unique photos taken by NASA astronauts from 1968 to 1972, each incredibly vivid image is printed on a professional Lambda printer for optimal contrast, depth, color, and detail.

Solar Corona is a mysterious picture that captures the moment the Moon in a direct path between the Sun and the Apollo 11 spacecraft during trans-lunar coast. As Aldrin put it at the time: "It's quite an eerie sight. There's a very marked three-dimensional aspect of having the sun's corona edge glow come from behind the moon the way it is. I guess what's giving it that three-dimensional effect is the earthshine.”