| Description | A total of ninety-four 35mm black and white slides from Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories. Some of the slides are individually dated. There are from observatory telescope pictures of the Moon and close-up of moon terrain and craters. Also the planets Saturn, Venus, Jupiter and comets, galaxies and nebulas,
There are fifty-nine black and white slides. Five frames of unmarked star patterns
Amongst these are two slides which show areas referred to in the film. They are two copies of slide number 259 titled Region of PTOLEMY AND TYCHO and slide no. 264(crater clavius)
Thirty-four black and white slides of Galaxies and Nebulas
One colour slide of Great Galaxy in Andromeda. This galaxy was used in the publicity poster for 2001 .
[The slides were copies from the following years 1917, 1918, 1929, 1946 - 1947, 1949, 1951, 1953, 1956-1958] |