Space Station Photos

You would think that would be phenomenal sight of the stars in space. I saw the IMAX film Space Station. No stars. I looked at pictures of shuttle spacewalks. No stars. How come?

For the same reason they do not show up in the photos of the lunar lander. And that has been used as evidence that they have never occurred. So I guess all these missions the shuttle never happened either.

The reason is because the subject of the photo, to be properly exposed, the exposure needs to be well enough to get picked for Starlight. Our eyes are amazing in their ability to see a wide range of sizes at a time. If you've been seeing it with your eyes, you see many stars, but the cameras are not so good. If you set the aperture (or shutter speed), so that the stars show bright images that you shoot would be grossly overexposed.

Devin, are you reading these other answers? I used to teach photography. I did a lot of astrophotography. If you had any experience with these things, you know what kind of things. So learn. And stop parroting stupid conspiracy theories without having any idea what you mean. You do not have some form of inside information. You do not have a privileged view and you're not busting a major conspiracy. You're naive and you listen to the wrong people.

I used to take pictures using my regular 50 mm SLR camera, mounted on an equatorial disk clock. With 400 ASA film, I had to set the aperture to f-2.8 and use an exposure of several seconds to get decent images of stars. That's about a thousand times the exposure that you would use to sunny scenes photo. (More 10 .000).

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I am sorry that Brant this information is not as obvious to those outside your field of knowledge that your comments suggest that you feel they should be. Just because people question the "official" version of things does not mean they do not want science. If this were the case why EZ NASA said it did not simply report abuse

The stars are too low relative to their environment .. Try out a clear night with a digital camera and take a picture of stars. You will not be able to see them.

You've probably noticed that little or no pictures taken in orbit are tiny space itself ... There is almost always a part or section of the shuttle or ISS in the image. These large structures and sunlight, they reflect the easy ones and wash the little dots of light from the stars.

To take a good photo of the space shuttle when it is in the light of the opening (aperture) the camera must be closed. This reduces the light entering the camera and allows the details of the shuttle to be photographed. At the same time reduced the opening makes the stars, which are much less bright invisible to the camera. If you need to adjust the camera to see the stars of the shuttle appears as a bright spot with no detail at all.

For the same basic reason that you can not see stars in broad daylight on the earth. Since the earth is reflected in both sunlight in space and the shuttle reflects the light, you can not see the stars because they are simply too weak and drowned by the light.

I read something that was written.