crosses on Apollo pictures... continued?

Question

Here is the link the Polish site where you can find two pictures with crosses obstructed by objects. How it is possible ?

http://www.paranormalne.forall.pl/forumVRP/viewtopic.php?t=241&sid=0f723bbc2fddff608c2b752e423e5e3c

Answer 1

You obviously have no idea how a camera works.

Light goes in, the chemicals on the celluloid film reacts to the light and stores the color/contrast info into its chemical code. Thus, storing the picture until it is developed.

However, in very bright areas these chemicals can become over saturated with white lights and essentially turn pure white. Those crosshairs are extremely thin, and it wouldn't take a long exposure for light to bleed around and saturate that receptor on the celluloid. Which is exactly what happened.

I will confess, when I was about 15 I saw the FOX special that used these same Moon Hoax "theories" and I wondered about it too. However, I went to college for aerospace engineering and now I work for a NASA contractor. I can tell you we went to the Moon without any question in my mind.

Answer 2

If bright objects *didn't* bleed over on to the crosshairs, then I would suspect the images were faked - specifically, faked by someone who didn't know photography.

Try this little experiment (I don't really know if it will work, since I haven't tried it myself, but the results should be interesting either way). Find a dark-colored stick or string (shoelace, for example). Position it in front of a very bright object (something white in the sunlight, and big, too). Take a few pictures, adjusting the exposure time with each picture. In at least some of the pictures the white from the bright object should bleed over the dark stick. Until you've tried this for yourself, please don't use the "crosshairs obstructed by objects" thing to say we didn't go to the Moon. Don't blindly believe what other people tell you!

Answer 3

The crosses are placed on the picture by the camera so that NASA can align smaller images to make larger ones.

What probably happened is that a bit of one image was overlaid over another so that the cross was covered up.

I do this a lot when assembling graphics because our color printer will only print an 8" by 10.5" image.

Answer 4

Zhimbo is right about light bleeding into the crosshairs. A good deal of the "moon landing hoax" silliness seems to be based on ignorance of the behavior of photographic media. Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy site has a pretty thorough debunking of the Fox TV show on this.

Answer 5

You have to remember that photographic technology back then was not where it is today. With that said, I am making an assumption that it might have something to do with the camera taking the pictures. NASA uses cameras that piece together smaller images into larger ones, which seems to be whats going on with the crosses. They might be reflections of light in the cameras positioning crosshairs that got engrained into the image. Again, just an assumption.

Answer 6

OK - in the only cases that this seems to happen, the objects are VERY bright white. Looks like bleeding/light scatter to me.

Answer 7

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