Talk:The Dish

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The Dish in the Stanford Foothills is currently in use as far as I know (although it wasn't for some time). —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jholman (talk • contribs)

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"Used a full moon to retrieve the signal"?
Under the heading "Historical accuracy", the final sentence states "Also the Moon was not full in the preceding two weeks prior the moon landing, while in the movie they used a full moon to retrieve the signal." (emphasis added) No source is provided for this. Can anyone explain what "using a full moon to retrieve a signal" is? It's my understanding that the phases of the moon are strictly a matter of the moon and earth's positions relative to the sun, so I don't understand how a full (or new) moon would affect the reception of a radio signal. And I suspect "receive" would be a better term than "retrieve" for a signal, since "retrieve" implies that someone travels to somewhere else to get something; hardly the case with a radio signal. Bricology (talk) 23:19, 30 January 2023 (UTC)
 * It's a while since I watched this. I think they "retrieved the signal" by realising that the spacecraft would be offset from the moon by an angle and direction they could easily calculate, so they pointed the dish at the moon, applied the offset, and started to hear from the spacecraft again. I don't recall the phase of the moon that was shown; if it was full, then that would indeed have been an error. My recollection is certainly not a reliable source! -- John of Reading (talk) 07:08, 31 January 2023 (UTC)