Check out this latest photo showing stars from space.

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Don't you own a camera? How hard would it be for you to go out to your backyard on a clear night, turn on the porch light, and take a picture of a friend with the night sky as the background?

If the friend is brightly lit by the porch light, the stars will not show up in your picture.

How hard would that be for you to do? It would take maybe 30 seconds of your precious time.

Who?

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Two years ago moved from my town
I was looking up past the city lights
But the city lights got in my way

See the constellation ride across the sky
No cigar, no lady on his arm
Just a guy made of dots and lines

-from "See The Constellation"
by They Might Be Giants

Maybe I've misunderstood something.

Hoax believers say the fact that there are no stars in the sky in Apollo photographs is evidence that the photo's are fake. They say if the photos were real, there would be stars.

To debunk that claim, people point out that stars are too faint to show up in the photos.

jrkeller linked to a picture from space that shows stars and used "Dang nab it" in the subject line.

That suggests to me that his point is that the picture he posted is a problem for debunkers, that it therefore supports the idea that the missions were faked.

Did I miss something there?

My response is that it's not terribly difficult to do an experiment and see if stars show up or not. Just remember to either use the flash or have the subjects brightly lit. The question isn't really open to discussion. Stars don't show up if the subject is brightly lit.

jrkeller was just being sarcastic.

Read the caption, and take a close look. You will see that this picture was taken at night (Space Station on the dark side of Earth). The light trails left by the stars indicate that it was a long exposure photograph. If the Astronauts on the Moon would have used long exposure times in their pictures, the images would have been totally washed out.

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Those who repeat History are doomed to learn it.

Yes,

I was trying to be sarcastic. The stars from space is one of my favorite topics.

One of Bill Kaysing's responses to this issue is that NASA blew up the Challenger to keep Christa McAuliffe saying that you could see stars from space, so therefore the moon landings were a hoax. The thing is, anytime there is an astronaut presentation here, some kid always asked about seeing stars from space. The typical answer is something like "Yes you can see stars from space as long as you're not in the sunlight." In other words, in the Earth's shadow.

That's the problem with sarcasm. The intended audience doesn't get it, and it leaves you open to the possibility of being quoted out of context.