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roznak ago

Why You Can't See Stars on the Moon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ksUQfEzMoM

blackguard19 ago

Let me guess...... camera exposure settings? Oh, never heard that lame ass excuse before!!!

Too bad according to NASA stars should easily be visible from the moon.

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap070621.html

And I guess despite ten manned moon missions they never once set the exposure settings to capture what would have been the most awe-inspiring stsrscape ever beheld by man.

Doesn’t matter anyway, because the cameras should not have worked anyway, and there have been so many differing accounts of astronauts and cosmonauts about whether they could see stars or just blackness that it’s obvious none of them have even been to space anyway. Never A Straight Answer, of course.

https://www.aulis.com/high_moon.htm

You just going to link to more shill crap or are you capable of formulating your own thoughts?

qwop ago

The page you referenced gives the exact same explanation of why there are no stars in the images. But I guess you just choose to ignore that, because it doesn't fit with the narrative, eh?

In the Apollo 11 photographs there are no stars at all, but merely black space, which may be explained by limitations of the selected camera exposure settings.

If you want to really debunk the "missing stars", why don't you provide me with some actual calculations on the matter. We know the cameras were locked at 1/250s shutter speed, and we know they used ISO 80 film for most of the shots. Which btw. is an extremely fast film. Nobody in their right mind would try to photograph stars with ISO 80.

But never mind that little detail. Since we know the ISO sensitivity and the shutter speed, as well as the approximate aperture of the camera. We should have all we need, to be able to calculate if stars are visible or not with 1/250 on ISO 80.

Now I give you a small challenge in the meantime: try and photograph anything less than sunlight with ISO 80 @ 1/250, and you can see for yourself what happens. But of course that's just too easy, so you continue to kvetch about the missing stars, while not actually doing any calculations or even bothering to try it out yourself.

blackguard19 ago

What is this pilpul? The question is not whether exposure settings can and would conceal stars — which would be visible to the naked eye according to NASA, which is obviously why I linked to the APOD site. The point is that if the missions were fake, it makes perfect sense that stars would be omitted in all photographs. But if it were real, it makes 0 sense that not a single camera would have been optimized to see the stars, a single time during ten missions.

“Maybe if I babble some irrelevant word salad about ISO sensitivity and shutter speed, people will ignore the obvious glaring anomaly that has been pointed out about why no effort was made to include stars in a single Apollo lunar photograph.”