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Originally posted by yeti101
pay attention to his words from 21 - 26 mins
During the Apollo program, he was one of the presenters of BBC television's coverage of the moon landing missions. The tapes of these broadcasts no longer exist: conflicting stories have circulated as to what precisely happened to them, or whether the broadcasts were recorded at all."
Originally posted by yeti101
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Do you honeslty think Eugene Cernan is acting/lying?
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Originally posted by yeti101
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why dont you see stars in the sky during the day on earth?
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Originally posted by jra-2
Instead on the moon light of the sun is not refracted, then astronauts also
in plain light of the day could look at the upper sky and see a spectacular
view of the stars (sky is black on the moon).
Originally posted by jra
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If standing under a streetlight, while looking up at the night sky can prevent me from seeing most stars, just imagine how much the Sun would prevent one from seeing them.
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Originally posted by jra
Originally posted by jra-2
Instead on the moon light of the sun is not refracted, then astronauts also
in plain light of the day could look at the upper sky and see a spectacular
view of the stars (sky is black on the moon).
If that were true, then I should be able to see lots of stars at night in the city, but I don't. I have to go out into the countryside, where there is very little light, so that I can see lots of stars.
If standing under a streetlight, while looking up at the night sky can prevent me from seeing most stars, just imagine how much the Sun would prevent one from seeing them. Also don't forget that the astronauts have there gold visors down the majority of the time, so that makes it even harder to see them.
[edit on 15-12-2007 by jra]
Explanation: If you could turn off the atmosphere's ability to scatter overwhelming sunlight, today's daytime sky might look something like this ... with the Sun surrounded by the stars of the constellations Taurus and Gemini. Of course, today is the Solstice. Traveling along the ecliptic plane, the Sun is at its northernmost position in planet Earth's sky, marking the astronomical beginning of summer in the north. Accurate for the exact time of today's Solstice, this composite image also shows the Sun at the proper scale (about the angular size of the Full Moon). Open star cluster M35 is to the Sun's left, and the other two bright stars in view are Mu and Eta Geminorum. Digitally superimposed on a nighttime image of the stars, the Sun itself is a composite of a picture taken through a solar filter and a series of images of the solar corona recorded during the solar eclipse of February 26, 1998 by Andreas Gada.
Originally posted by swimmer
reply to post by weedwhacker
Hehe...and you think that you are using "hard science"...that is really a good joke.
You are far, far away from any science. You are just irritated by jra-2, because science is not your strongest side...to say the least.
Hehe, I can't believe that you called your simplistic explanation "hard science"... poor thing, that is your level?
In addition to this restricted field of vision, the windows themselves were never entirely clean, and the difficulties imposed by the scattering of light from deposits on the window were severe. The deposits apparently occurred during the firing of third-stage rockets, when gases were swept past the windows. Attempts were made to eliminate the smudging by use of temporary covers jettisoned once orbit was achieved, but even then deposits were present on the inside of the outer pane of glass. Another source of contamination was apparently the material used to seal the glass to the frames. The net result was that the windows were never entirely
clean, and scattered light hampered the astronauts' observations.
The astronauts who had relatively clean windows often referred to the appearance of the night sky as seen in orbit, as similar to that seen by the pilot of a jet aircraft at 40,000 feet.
The Night Airglow
The first American to go into orbit, astronaut John Glenn, (MA-6) reported observing an annular ring around the horizon during satellite night. It appeared to him to be several degrees above the solid earth surface and he noted that stars seemed to dim as they "set" behind the layer.
It is especially noticeable when there is no moon in the sky and the solid earth surface is barely discernible (Plate 14.); as a matter of fact it is easier to use the airglow layer than the earth edge as a reference in making sextant measurements of angular elevations of stars.
Originally posted by weedwhacker
I know I'm asking for trouble from the Mods here,
Originally posted by ignorant_ape
its a function of the magnitude , you idiot
for some reason pretenting that the results should be identical