Yesterday I acquired a copy of
The NASA Mission Reports: Apollo 11, Volume Three. In it, the editor, Robert Godwin, has this to say:
Quote:
The still-image camera employed by Aldrin and Armstrong was using a very narrow aperture (f/stop) combined with short shutter speeds due to the intensely bright lunar terrain. This is well documented here and explains to anyone but a total idiot why there are no stars apparent in any of the lunar photographs. (For anyone who still can't figure it out - try taking any camera outside on a clear night with ordinary color film in it and then shut down the aperture to f-22 and expose the frame at 1/250th of a second. I guarantee that you won't see stars in the resulting picture.)
For the sake of any reader that might read this in some hazy distant future. Yes, there actually was a time at the beginning of the 21st century when many people believed that the Apollo moon landings were filmed on a Hollywood back-lot. Their research can be found alongside the findings of the flat-Earth society and the many cult cliques who insist that the world actually ended in 1999 ... I digress...
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08-February-2003, 10:06 PM
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