[Starry Night] The visibility of stars from the Moon

[Leigh Palmer]

If one were to observe stars from a point on the surface of the Moon
at night, one would expect to see about the same number of stars one
sees from Earth on a most excellent night, except one would have to
observe through a helmet visor. The Apollo astronauts did not spend
time on the Moon at night, however, and they would have been daylight
adapted visually. I believe their visors were filtered as well, so
they would have seen very few stars. However, I have not seen first
hand accounts in the literature. Has anyone else? Surely if the sky
had been even as good as on a fair dark night on Earth one of them
would have noticed and commented on it.

Leigh




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