Thread: Moon photos!

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Why is it that you don't see stars in all the moon landing photos

Cameras set for bright reflective objects and short exposures. Do the same outside at night here and you wont see stars. You need long exposures to pick up stars but then you get star trails.

Originally Posted by Mick-Kelly

Cameras set for bright reflective objects and short exposures. Do the same outside at night here and you wont see stars. You need long exposures to pick up stars but then you get star trails.

Interesting thought but that photo was taken in daylight (as much as it is on the moon) All ? landings were on the light side of the moon, but as there is no atmosphere there is no blue sky and very harsh shadows ie light or dark. I'm not really sure how that would impact on star visibility.


Martyn

Originally Posted by Bushie

Interesting thought but that photo was taken in daylight (as much as it is on the moon) All ? landings were on the light side of the moon, but as there is no atmosphere there is no blue sky and very harsh shadows ie light or dark. I'm not really sure how that would impact on star visibility.


Martyn

The same way, stars are very faint and the only way to catch them is long exposures and usually stacking images. For example if i want to do a widefield star image you would need a tracking mount and long exposures. Even the you get field rotation.

You can see with this shot that no stars are visible:



Shadows indicate the sun is still well above the horizon and very harsh light.

Note: Lunar Rover too.......4wd/4w-steering....

It is interesting that there are not visible the marks of the tyres on the sand. Photo shoped image by NASA
Also the win that moove the flag does not afect the loose fabric on the LHS of the uniform of the astronaut
The win is trong but there are not visible movement of sand near the surface

The color of the sand and texture changes dramaticly after the spaceship

On the LHS eg of the spaceship looks like that the Photoshop operator forgot to touch the texture/surface of the sand

There is no wind on the moon wind kinda implies an atmosphere............the flag is held out by a horizontal pole at the top. The different texture is because your looking into the distance and the lunar rover is pointed towards you so the tyre marks are behind it.
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