Ok, you are here on earth…you look up into the sky and its full of stars.
You go into the mountains or in the country outside city limits with the bright lights and the stars are at your fingertips it seems.
Now, you see video or a live feed from our “Space Ships” or from the alleged landing on the moon and all you see is black.
Where are the stars?
TTD
Try this experiment.
Get about a foot from a bare hundred watt light bulb. Stare into it for about five minutes. Now run outside and look at sky and tell me how many stars you see in the first few seconds.
Take a video of something at night. If you have enough light to see the object in the foreground, you wil not see stars in the background. It is one of the things that show that your eyes are more versatile than any video of film camera.
The stars are in the same place they always were. Way the hell out there.
What you’re asking is why you can’t see stars in photographs or video taken from spacecraft or on the moon. The reason is the same reason as to why you often can’t see stars in photographs taken here on Earth: they are not bright enough, relative to the object being lit from local sources, to expose the film. (Or cause the CCD to fire, in the case of video.)
“alleged” landing on the moon? :dubious:
Anyway, stars are faint. Look out your living room window one night and try to see any. You can only see them once your eyes adjust to a very low light level. In any photograph from space where the earth, the surface of the moon, or the spaceship/station is visible, they are brilliantly lit by the sun to something like a million times brighter than the stars.
I will note that all footage of astronauts on the moon was (obviously) shot during daylight (a lunar day last about 28 earth days, just in case you’re wondering). The reflection of sunlight from the lunar surface, astronauts etc would be very bright compared to the star light. Most of the other footage where you see space vehicles are also shot when the object in question is lit by the sun, again for obvious reasons.
Also, there are PLENTY of shots from space that in fact do show stars.
The OP should note that this is one of the first and stupidest of the moon hoaxer questions.
Before asking the rest of them, TickledToDeath, you might want to read DID WE LAND ON THE MOON? A Debunking of the Moon Hoax Theory by Robert A. Braeunig. This takes all the common questions and answers them, so we don’t have to.
So during the moon landings, were the astronauts able to see stars in the lunar sky, or was the sun too bright? It seems like it would be awfully bright with the sun in the sky, plus the light reflected up from the very light surface of the moon.
They were able to see stars, as there is no atmosphere in space to reflect the sun’s light.
The sun makes the day so bright because the rays are reflected off the atmosphere and approach us from every direction. On the moon, because there is no atmosphere to scatter the rays of light, light from the sun comes from only one direction, and everything around is dark. Astronauts could certainly see the stars from the surface of the moon, or from space.
Yes and no.
They could see the brighter ones. But one of the misconceptions is that the astronauts should have seen a perfectly black sky FILLED with a gazillion stars. Because there is no record of lunar astronauts babbling about such a view, moon hoaxers see (heh) that as some sort of screw up - gotcha.
The lunar astronauts were not even remotely dark adapted, either physically or chemically.
Light up a room in your house as bright as you can. The smallest one with the whitest wall and the most lighting. Sit in there for many minutes.
Now go outside and look at the stars. What you see at first is probably BETTER than Lunar astronauts could see.
The Bad Astronomer (ex-Doper) tackles the question of why there are no stars in the Apollo photos.