Apollo Surface Picture has 10 objects around sun

Just look at the area around the sun. There are at least 10 objects visible around and in the sun's radiance. If this is a result of compound images then there still has to be more than one object due to the location of each relative to the sun.

www.lpi.usra.edu... JSC2007e045376&zoom=True

Apollo Surface Panoramas

AS12-47-6982 – AS12-47-7006

Originally posted by lazimodo
Just look at the area around the sun. There are at least 10 objects visible around and in the sun's radiance. If this is a result of compound images then there still has to be more than one object due to the location of each relative to the sun.

www.lpi.usra.edu... JSC2007e045376&zoom=True

Apollo Surface Panoramas

AS12-47-6982 – AS12-47-7006

Here is a better link ... Its Apollo 12 that I noticed.

www.lpi.usra.edu...

i downloaded a lot of the images on this site .. made some tweekings on photoshop ..


and realised how badly retouched those images are .. , especially in the horizon ..

most of the top crosshairs are missing .. , proof that they completly , blackend the horizon up .

theyre doin an awful job

reply to post by fazeone1981


What have they seen on moon....?

Originally posted by fazeone1981
i downloaded a lot of the images on this site .. made some tweekings on photoshop ..


and realised how badly retouched those images are .. , especially in the horizon ..

most of the top crosshairs are missing .. , proof that they completly , blackend the horizon up .

theyre doin an awful job

An example?

PS - sorry for the one liner, but there's not much more to add!!!

maybe its a question of exposition , i talked with my boss on this , we use photoshop on a daily basis ..

maybe the needed to tweek the cameras exposition so that the ground wouldnt appear whited out .. or completly white blasted ..

thats a theory that we cant see any stars .. because of controlled exposition ..

maybe thats why the cross hairs are disapearing in the background .. while the blackened horizon is at the same level as the black crosshairs .. on which there disapearing ..

Zoom into the reflection on the astronaut's helmet in : AS17-138-21055 – AS17-138-21072...

Also... if the stars are so much brighter when viewed from the moon, how are they completely absent in the picture? Even here on earth if u take a picture at night in a well lit area, at least 1 star will still show up

Originally posted by Watts
Even here on earth if u take a picture at night in a well lit area, at least 1 star will still show up

That simply isn't true. Try taking a properly exposed photo in a sports stadium (or similar) under extremely bright floodlights. You won't see any stars.

reply to post by lazimodo

Just look at the area around the sun. There are at least 10 objects visible around and in the sun's radiance. If this is a result of compound images then there still has to be more than one object due to the location of each relative to the sun.

Are you talking about the lens flares?

I think he's talking about what appears to be dust on the negatives (or the scanner) during scanning.

These artifacts are visible all over the images, they just happen to be more visible in the brighter regions.

reply to post by healthysceptic

I'm talking a city scene... or better yet, a snow covered field, not where flood lights are shining down directly into the camera from all directions. and the stars are much much brighter beyond our atmosphere. There's no way they would be blacked out the way they are... it doesn't even look natural.

reply to post by fazeone1981

and realised how badly retouched those images are .. , especially in the horizon ..

most of the top crosshairs are missing .. , proof that they completly , blackend the horizon up .

theyre doin an awful job

Panoramas are made by stitching many separate photographs together. Back when these panoramas were made, they probably used a razor blade, glue and black paint. Yes, of course they blackened the sky, otherwise the top edge of the panorama would be uneven.

Originally posted by Watts
reply to post by healthysceptic

 

I'm talking a city scene... or better yet, a snow covered field, not where flood lights are shining down directly into the camera from all directions. and the stars are much much brighter beyond our atmosphere. There's no way they would be blacked out the way they are... it doesn't even look natural.

That's an invalid scenario. The moons surface, and therefore the astronauts, are in the full glare of the sun. The camera is simply exposing accordingly. Starlight under those conditions is many, many times too faint to register. The only relevant thing here is the difference in brightness between the Lunar surface and the stars, which is huge.

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No, not the flaring but the black dots. Dust on a lens would not be in the focal plane, and would be invisible to the film. So if it is an image artifact it has to from some other source. Or they could be objects. They appear in other panoramas but not in all of them.

reply to post by lazimodo

It honestly just looks like dust which was introduced when they scanned the prints in. I say prints because if they had scanned from the negatives then the dust would appear white.