Yawn... obviously faked
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The completely black space is very strange. I am curious to hear what others think about that. My assumption is that you would see many, many stars, the same as we do on dark nights away from city lights.
Why is the space so black without any stars? Any astrologists care to explain?
Learn how cameras work. Stars are very faint. Right objects however blow up the cameras exposure balance forcing it to choose between keeping extremely bright objects like the nearby spaceship in proper exposure, but it then creates shutter times so fast that the camera cannot capture the Stars
If someone pointed the camera away from the bright objects and let the camera do its thing, you would indeed get Stars
What's interesting is that no astronaut that ever landed on the moon ever thought of photographing the night sky or was instructed to do so.
Look at the Hubble deep field images. They pointed HST at a pitch black postage stamp-sized point in the sky and left the shutter open for 10 DAYS to gather as much light as possible. What we see from the ground, at night, is just blackness. No look up an image of Hubble deep field and you'll see what is really there.
Without artificial lights or atmosphere, wouldn't space offer a more stellar view of the stars that would inspire an astronaut at some point to direct his camera. I mean if I go camping away from the city and in spite of earth's atmosphere, I'm blown away. I set the camera with the shutter open for a minute or so, and get some good pictures. Is supposedly the view of the cosmos from space just meh and no astronaut has ever been inspired to snap a pic or even talk about it. Why is that?
Thank you, cats. I have always wanted to have a much better understanding of cameras. I'm pretty much a point and shoot and hope for the best type. But being a master photographer would be very cool.
You would think if you make the trip all the way to the edge of space you would take multiple videos and pictures to show the grandeur. Maybe they did. Maybe I missed them.
The city lights - thats your answer right there. Go outside and tell me if you can see stars in the daylight. You can't see stars because they are thousands of times dimmer than the sun. Why? Because they are thousands of times further away than the sun. The atmospheric scatter really has nothing to do with how bright or dim something is.
The spacewalk happened on the day side of the orbit so they could see what they are doing.
Thanks for this response. I think that is just what I was looking for. I appreciate it.