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Okies. #1 planet is funky colors! looks kinda cool.
#2 Lack of Stars
#3 Too many stars (my favorite of the 3 though)

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Dude.. you're spacing me out. Ha.

In space...

...no one hears you have fun.

They look good, but, as said before, too many stars in the third picture. Additionally, wouldn't the light from the sun make the stars that appear nearest to it block them from view, as city lights do? Or am I just speaking from vast amounts of ignorance of astronomy and meteorology?

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Assuming that third picture is of a star (looks like an ultraviolet wavelength photo if it is), then yes, there would be *no* stars visible in the shot.

For that matter, same with the first and second shots, too. It's a pretty picture, but not accurate scientifically. Look at any of the photos taken on the lunar surface during the Apollo program to get an idea of how brightness can overwhelm such relatively dim objects as stars.


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lol, i didn't mean em to be scientific

3 should be something like a sun or a very hot planet... and yeah, there are too many stars :/

In the second I didn't want to have stars... they are in the galaxy

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You can't see stars in space.

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Who said those were stars? Maybe somebody sneezed on the camera lense.

And, yes, it looks better.

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The shots taken from the moon were set to a fast exposure time and the aperture settings were lowered due to the bright surface of the moon. You can ask any of the atronaughts from the Apollo missions that landed on the moon, you can definitely see the stars from the surface.

Incidentally, the "photos without stars" is a common argument for the Moon Hoax people. This topic and more related to the supposed Moon Hoax is available here:

http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/tv/foxapollo.html#stars

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I must be the only one who likes the third picture the way it was originally. Nice work, Matyy!

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... I wasn't questioning that fact.



Astronaut. And yes, they could see stars, though with the same ease one could see stars from a well-lit parking lot. The point of my post was to show that background stars wouldn't be visible in shots that highlight a particularly bright object like a nearby star, since its light would overwhelm that of more distant stars.

As I've said, art? Yes, most definitely. Good astronomy? Nope.



I frequent that site, and I'm a member of the forum. While Phil does a decent job summarizing the arguments and rebuttals, a more thorough debunking of the conspiracy theory can be found here.


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