To any astronomer, where are the stars over earth in space?

Question

everything looks pitch black when the shuttle is in space over earth, could it be the postion we are in the milky way?

Answer 1

You cannot see stars in pictures from the Shuttle for the same reason you cannot see stars in pictures you yourself take with a camera at night, they are not bright enough. I suggest you take your camera outside on a clear night and try to photograph the stars. Especially, do it in a well lit area, like a parking lot with lots of street lights. The camera will capture the parking lot, as lit up by the street lights, well enough, but there will be no stars visible at all. It is the same for the pictures from the shuttle. During the day, sunlight takes the place of the street lights, and at night, they turn on lights in the shuttle to see, just like we do on Earth.

Answer 2

I'm not sure what you mean, if I did I am sure I could understand your question.
First off, I think when you're saying everything looks pitch black, that you're talking about the images they shoot up there and we see when we watch them doing spacewalks and repairs. The reason for that is the CCD in the cameras they use cannot pick up background stars even though we can see them optically. The stars are too tiny because of their vast distance away to light up a pixel in the camera. People sometimes claim this is evidence that we never went to the moon because there are no stars in NASA's background footage, but cameras never pick up stars. Take a video camera out at night and try to record some - it won't work.
Basically, the space shuttle is right with the Earth, only a couple of hundred miles up. So it is most definitely in the same location of the galaxy we are, it's orbiting in our solar system with us and the solar system is in the milky way galaxy.
Beyond that, I don't know what you want. Email me at [e-mail]
with further questions and I'll be glad to write back. - Kevin

Answer 3

if it's from a photograph, it could be the angle of the shot. light from the earth, moon, and even the shuttle itself may be enough to drown out many stars that would normally be seen.... just guessing here really.....

Answer 4

Hi,

There are many reasons to that question.

Maybe because of the angle of the photo taken.
The position of the shuttle.

Karl
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Answer 5

to the astronauts the sky is full of stars.

Cameras dont capture their light in the brief exposure time they use.