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The art-direction was off throughout the entire film.
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No stars on daylight side of the moon!
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shareYes, it's serious. Stars are visible during space flights, yet they were omitted from this movie. Ridiculous.
shareOne half of the ship is in daylight, the other half is nighttime. I'm sure you can figure out how the moon is similar. And why the sky is not blue on the moon.
shareThey aren't always visible, depending on the strength of other light sources ... Can you see stars during the day?
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You are aware that you can't always see stars in space if the sun is in view ... Right?
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Leaving out the stars may have been deliberate. The director did everything else possible to make the film slow and dreary for some reason, leaving out any starfields may have been part of that.
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I've always wondered why the Lunar Module pilot, Michael, Collins said that he doesn't remember seeing any stars.
As the LM pilot, he would have been on the dark side of the moon 25+ times at 48 minutes per orbit.
https://youtu.be/bu10dqBEFc0?t=16
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I appreciate you trying to answer for him, but that's not what Collins actually said in the mission press conference shortly after splashdown.
Collins said, 'I don't remember seeing any.'.
That's eyewitness testimony, basically right after the event, not text massaged into a book a decade or more later.
It also defies belief that Collins wouldn't find a few seconds to either lookout the window to see the most magnificent display of stars ever seen by any human that has ever lived when on the dark side of the moon, or that he would have seen the stars when he undoubtedly regularly used the optics aboard the CM to verify that his position and orbit were exactly what they needed to be in order to dock with the returning LM.
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The stars aren't visible if you have such a bright source of light, as is the Moon surface. Do your research for once, man, and stop spreading this retarded conspiracy theory
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"The stars aren't visible if you have such a bright source of light, as is the Moon surface."
That's absurd. The moon's surface isn't a bright source of light. It's just gray. It doesn't have any magical properties. It actually has relatively low reflectivity. It has about the same albedo as worn asphalt, about half the albedo of green grass, less than a third the albedo of desert sand, and less than a sixth the albedo of fresh snow. You could easily see the stars from the sunlit side of the moon simply by looking up, if not instantly, then within a few moments (i.e., the time it takes your eyes to adjust to lower light).
The movie should have shown stars during the scenes on the moon and in space, but they probably wanted it to look like the Apollo pictures which didn't show stars because the shutter speed, and thus the exposure time, was too fast for star light to expose the film. A movie should show what's actually there though, rather than a view that's limited by wrong camera settings, or unadjusted human eyes (which would only make sense if the movie is showing a first-person view).
We don't see stars during the day on Earth because the atmosphere reflects and scatters light, creating a bright blue sky.
Hellofaplanet. Dude, Google “Earthrise”. You won’t see any stars in the photos taken from space or the moon’s surface/orbit looking back at Earth.
The main reason is the cameras themselves and their settings. It’s been discussed ad nauseam online here and there. Even on Mythbusters.