Actually, Kim, the surface would have been overexposed. Best wishes, Joe On Fri, 28 Sep 2007, Kim wrote:
A little more detail to Patrick's response:
The lack of stars in photos taken from the lunar surface have always been one of the reasons that the flat-earth people claim that the Apollo landings never took place. Apparently, they are ignorant of the physics of light and photography (and, just ignorant, in general). The camera's exposure would have been set for essentially the same as daylight conditions on earth, due to the extreme brightness of the lunar surface, in contrast to the very dark sky. Had the astronauts used a tripod and longer exposures, I'm sure that they would have been able to image both the surface and some stars, but of course, the surface would have been underexposed.
Thought: Does anyone know if the Apollo astronauts ever did use a tripod and still camera for long exposures?
Kim
-----Original Message----- From: utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of Patrick Wiggins Sent: Friday, September 28, 2007 7:07 PM To: Utah Astronomy Subject: [Utah-astronomy] Re: In The Shadow of the Moon Movie
On 28 Sep 2007, at 18:50, baxman2@comcast.net wrote:
One thing that I have noticed from astronaut space pictures; they never show any stars in the sky. I assume that camera contrast resolution might have something to this. The astronauts claim that they could see stars in the sky. Any comments on this problem?
Exposures of objects on the lunar surface were too short to show stars.
patrick
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