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Why are there no stars seen on the pictures of the moon?
Commander Cody:
Why are there no stars seen on the pictures of the moon?
mabye it was the technology at that time or is their another reason? :o ???Please explain.
Andromeda:
Capturing stars on photographic film requires a long exposure. The cameras were set to take pictures of a brightly lit landscape, which required a very short exposure - too short to pick up stars.
If the astronauts had used long exposures, the landscape would have been badly overexposed and the pictures would have been a big mess. Remember, the mission was to survey the Moon - not take pictures of stars.
That's the same reason why pictures of the ISS or the shuttle in orbit, to name but two examples, do not show stars in the pictures.
Try it yourself - go out on a clear night when you can see lot of stars and take a snapshot. Your camera won't image any stars.
http://www.clavius.org/photoexp.html
http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/tv/foxapollo.html#stars
Jason Thompson:
It's not the technology of the time. The same limitations on photographic results apply today. Stars are dim objects, especially when compared to sunlit scenes. You can't capture both on film at once.
Commander Cody:
Thank you this is really helpful.
raven:
The only way you could get stars in the sky and a properly exposed lunar terrain would be with a double exposure: masking out the lunar terrain, exposing for stars, then taking a much shorter exposure of the terrain.
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