Originally posted by ArMaP
To me, this sounds like Armstrong is saying that he did saw some stars but he can not remember what starts did he saw, and Collins says that he
does not remember seeing any in the same situation, not during the whole time.
Thanks for the post ArMaP. Collins was not in the 'same siutation' ever. He was 60 miles above in orbit.
and the camera was programed for surface photos, not for star photos.
Cameras aren't programmed for surface or stars. Maybe you are talking about f-stops and exposure time. The film used in the Hasselblad was more
sensitive to light than any other film yet developed, something on the order of magnitude of 10. If any stars had been visible from the surface of the
moon they would have shown up on the film. It wouldn't have mattered what the f-stop or exposure time was.
The reason the crew said they didn't see stars is that the NAZA lie in those days is that you couldn't see stars in a vacuum which, of course, is
total nonsense. One day a NAZA supposed 'expert' gave me a lecture that the only reason we could see stars from earth is that our atmosphere
'refracted the starlight' and made the little iitty bitty star visible.
But now, of course, there are too many Astronaut books out with reference to the 'magnificent stars in space' that NAZA is having to back pedal big
time.
But the real reason the Apollo Astronauts couldn't sees stars is it was daytime, the sun was up and the sky was bright. Not black. Black is what was
airbrushed onto all Apollo photos and fabricated into video shots.
That is why the 700 reels of high definition video disappeared because there was no way to airbrush the color of sky out of them and if NAZA wasn't
able to airbrush the color of the sky out of the videos people would know there was an atmosphere and the whole moon 'lie' would start to
collapse.
That is one reason so many of the still photos were 'faked'. Not because they didn't go but becaue of the color of the sky.
This is the reason that when Alan Bean was interviewed by Discover Magazine in 1994 and asked, "What do you see when looking up from the surface of
the moon?" that he responded, "Black patent shoes."
What happened here is that when he was 'hypnotized' to forget much of what he saw on the moon, the hypnotist told him, "The sky was black, as black
as patent leather shoes."
Unfortunately that was the wrong suggestion because all Bean remembered was the 'patent leather shoes' not the 'black' he was being programmed
with.
This is apparent in Dr. Mitchells comment when asked what is was it felt like to be on the moon and he responded, "Somehow I couldn't resurrent the
feeling I had while there."
Same thing with Aldrin who said when asked what it felt like to be on the moon, "For Christ's sake, I don't know. I just don't know. I have been
frustrated since the day I left the moon by that question."
But the reason the Apollo astronauts didn't see stars on the moon is because the daytime sky on the moon is not black. Its too bright to see
stars.
For a good belly laugh on how ridiculous the concept of 'no atmosphere' on the moon is, google up yourself a picture of Alan Beans painting
"Sunrise Over Antares" and look at the bright yellow sun being refracted by the moons atmosphere.
Thanks for the post.