I would like to know why in the pictures you see of the Moon that you dont see stars in the background?

Answer 1

There's really no different between the sky on the Moon and the sky during day time on Earth. The fact that the sky on Earth is blue because of the wavelengths of light filtering through the atmosphere. The fact that there is no atmosphere on the Moon makes no difference. You cannot see stars during the day. Earth has an atmopshere, but at night it looks like we dont, again because of blue colour wavelength of light getting scattered in the atmopshere.

If you have ever seen images of the moon you would notice how bright it is during the day. There's no atmosphere or clouds on the moon and so in comparison to this bright surface say a bright surface on earth makes no difference.

It is very difficult to get a photograph of a very dim object and a very bright object at the same time. If you set the camera to take a photograph of the bright object you won't capture the dim object at all.

The reason why you can never see stars in any of the pictures taken from the moon is that when contrasted with the brightness of the astronauts and the lunar surface, the stars are just too dim to appear on the photographic emulsion of the film. If the camera shutter were held open long enough for the stars to register, everything else would be over-exposed into a white featureless glare.

You cannot have both visible on the one photograph, so the camera was set for the correct exposure for Neil and Buzz and the lunar surface, not the stars. When standing on the lunar surface the astronauts could not visually observe the stars in the dark sky, because of the surface glare, they could only see them when standing in shadow. By the same token, if we take a photograph outdoors at night from a brightly illuminated surface, our photograph also would not show any stars in the sky.

The cameras and films the Apollo missions took with them were also designed to photograph activities on the moon's surface. They were not designed to take photographs of the stars. It doesn't mean the stars weren't there, just that the photographs did not capture them.

It isnt just the photos taken from the moon. If you have ever seen photos or even video footage of the shuttle in orbit you cannot see the stars in the images either. It is the same deal as the photos from the moon.

Hope this helped you out mate, sorry its a bit long, but sometimes simple questions take a long time to explain and dont always have simple answers :)

Answer 2

You can expose the camera for one of two things. You either get a photo of the moon and no stars because the stars are too dim or you get photos of the stars and overexpose the moon. The film cannot handle both. Try this .... go outside with a camera at night and take a picture of something with the stars visible in the background. Guaranteed if the subject is exposed correctly, you won't see any stars.

Answer 3

Because the Moon is so bright and the stars are so dim. If the camera was set to expose the stars correctly, the Moon would be hopelessly over exposed. You can see pictures taken that way. They do show stars, but the Moon is just a bright white overexposed blob. The source is such a picture. It shows just a very few of the brightest stars, but the Moon is a hopelessly overexposed blob.

Answer 4

For the same reason you cant see the stars during the day on earth. It was daytime on the moon, so the sun outshined the stars. If you go to a brightly lit city or a night game at a sports stadium, look up and you will notice that you can see little to no stars in the sky.

Answer 5

most conspiracy theorist point out that pictures of astronauts transmitted from the Moon don't include stars in the dark lunar sky
What happened???
ask any photographer? It's difficult to capture something very bright and something else very dim on the same piece of film typical emulsions don't have enough "dynamic range." astronauts striding across the bright lunar soil in their sunlit spacesuits were literally dazzling. Setting a camera with the proper exposure for a glaring spacesuit would naturally render background stars too faint to see.

Answer 6

There are some pictures from the holiday that do coach stars because of the fact they are long exposures taken on the nighttime element of Earth. the 1st link is from the gap holiday Endeavour, that's an aurora. additionally there are pictures of stars taken from the Moon by ability of the Apollo sixteen astronauts with a definite ultraviolet digicam (see the 2nd link, they are alluring). yet whilst pictures of SUNLIT gadgets are uncovered wisely, the celebs do no longer look.

Answer 7

The ambient light of the moon over whelms the faint light from the stars.

Answer 8

Eugene should get the 10 points