It's the same old HB garbage, and Glom has answered basically the first portion.
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There is nothing on the NASA site http://www.nasa.gov, and their press office refuses to discuss the issue (New Scientist, July 17 1999, p.49).
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False. NASA first issued a press release in 1977, and there are several websites and press releases that discuss it.
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In particular, there is still no credible answer to the question of why stars are not visible in the pictures.
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Sure there is, and one for decades. Just because the conspiracists ignore it or dislike it doesn't mean there isn't one.
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Several of their photos show mountains in the distance which are clearly in focus.
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Irrelevant. The stars are much farther away than the mountains.
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In any case, with such bright light the depth of field would include objects at infinity in most of the shots.
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What a bunch of crap. The Sun is simply bright enough to completely obscures the stars, no matter what the depth of field is.
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There is consequently no evidence for a).
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There's no evidence for this author's conclusions.
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Argument b) is ridiculous.
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Not to someone who understands how bright the Sun is.
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Stars are not visible on Earth during the daylight because sunlight is scattered by particles in the atmosphere.
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No. As the BA discusses in his book on pg. 160, this is false. The atmosphere is fairly transparent to let sunlight in.