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Originally Posted by ineluki
Please note this is entirely hypothetical, I understand why there are no star pictures, and that they wouldn't show different stars than a photo from earth.
Now let's assume the astronauts could have easily taken photos of the stars from the moon.
Has any HB ever given an explanation (other than handwaving), how they could determine that the star positions would be wrong?
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No, but it's
all handwaving. The HBer wouldn't be bringing these things up if they understood the concepts. Anyway, in my experience, star position a secondary issue for an HBer. The "discussion" normally starts with the classic "Why aren't there stars in the pictures?" question. After you patiently explain exposure issues, then they follow up with "Why aren't there some star pictures, then?" When you point out that Apollo 16 did take UV photos, they will insist they are fake for a variety of reasons. If the HBer actually is responding to questions, it quickly becomes obvious that they never understood the exposure answer, and were just throwing more questions at you, but aren't going to attempt to understand or be willing to accept an answer.
By the way, sometimes it isn't star position, but the number of stars and star color. Some think that on the moon, the sky should look like a Hubble image, full of multi-colored stars, nebulae, and so on. To some extent, that false expectation is the fault of the astronomy community for not being more careful to point out that those colors are picked because they help the scientist, they aren't what a mark 1 eyeball would see.