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OMG There are no stars in this picture. Is the ISS a hoax too? : )?

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    OMG!!!! I don't believe it! It must be the Illuminati or something!

    Source(s): Realizing that the "sar-chasm" is the gap between the joke, and the folks who don't get it.
  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Stars are also never seen in Space Shuttle, Mir, International Space Station Earth observation photos, or even sporting events that take place at night. The sun in the Earth/Moon area shines as brightly as on a clear noon day on Earth, so cameras used for imaging these things are set for daylight exposure, with quick shutter speeds in order to prevent overexposing the film. The dim light of the stars simply does not have a chance to expose the film. (This effect can be demonstrated on Earth by attempting to view stars from a brightly lit parking lot at night. Only a few of the brightest stars are visible, and shielding the eye with one's hands only marginally improves the view. Science fiction movies and television shows do confuse this issue by depicting stars as visible in space under all lighting conditions. A photographic demonstration of how aperture and shutter speed can turn a lit background ink-black is here. The eye's visual response is much the same.) Stars were seen by every Apollo mission crew except for the unfortunate Apollo 13 (they couldn't see the stars due to the fact that oxygen and water vapor created a haze around the spacecraft). Stars were used for navigation purposes and were occasionally also seen through cabin windows when the conditions allowed. To see stars, nothing lit by sunlight could be in the viewer's field of view.[2]

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Because the fact that you can see it with your naked eye, let a lone a telescope, doesn't prove it for you? You must be a Christian.

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