OK, I give up. I figured that someone visiting your photos on the web would be more impressed with the spendor of the true sky as would possibly be seen from an airless moon. However, if you wish to factor in astronaut helmet visors, tinted glass and so on, then I guess a modest dabbling of stars is all one should expect. I think, however, that the real sky is what your photos should depict, not the less stunning view that might have been seen through a helmet.
Leigh Palmer wrote:
If one were to observe stars from a point on the surface of the Moon-- To unsubscribe from this list or to subscribe to other SPACE.com Canada, Inc. mailing lists please visit, http://www.starrynight.com/cgi-local/lists.cgi
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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