Stars By Day
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@WhiteJarrah What about the photographs taken from the Moon by the Apollo 16 crew, of the stars in ultra-violet; the magnitudes of which (in the UV portion of the spectrum) have since been verified by later, orbiting UV scopes?
And what about the UV shot they took of the Earth, showing stars in the background - in an alignment which can be confirmed using software like Celestia, that proves the picture was taken at the precise date, time AND LOCATION stated in the mission log?
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I was once able to see Jupiter 20 min past sunrise with my eyes.
It's easy if you find the object early in the morning when it's still dark and keep a tab on it as the day breaks. Finding it in daytime is hard since there is no reference point to focus your eyes to infinity.
Venus is even easier as it is much brighter.
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Thats Venus. I can see it in the sky all the time. Especially at night
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With my 13.1" telescope I saw Algeiba in Leo (sickle) double star. Mag. 2.6 and 3.8 13 min. before sunset. Both like a bright torch.
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Maybe they 'reneged', because they realized with the weight of the equipment would be better spent elsewhere, as photos of the stars in visible light have practically no scientific value. What DID have scientific value was Ultraviolet pictures of stars, which they took on Apollo 16 with the specially designed Far Ultraviolet Camera/Spectrograph designed by Dr. Carruthers. This data, which was new at the time, was confirmed by later probes and satellites.
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1) The moon look horribly over exposed.
2) What are the exposures? If the Panasonic is in automatic mode, why should we believe these are shutter speeds equivalent to Apollo's (1/125th, 1/250th)? Use those settings and try again.
3) Venus is not a star! Not even close!
4) Your magazine article says this star was seen "shortly before sunrise." Uh... daytime? Settings?
5) Apollo astronauts have stated that with difficulty, stars could be seen.
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A small item like a film cartridge would be no problem to return to Earth: a tiny rocket, guidance thrusters, small parachute and location beacon would do it.
I am talking about the pics the CAMERA TOOK, not the fake Moon-set still picture of the camera itself! There are no pics of a/nots, tracks or equipment in the camera's pics.
The flat featureless plain seen in the Far UV's pics does not look like the purported A16 site, indicating that it may not have landed where NASA wanted it to.
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So, a Surveyor probe (operated from 1966-1968) landed on the Moon in April 1972, at the time and location of the manned Apollo 16, it then took 178 pictures using the Apollo Schmidt Telescope and then returned its film canister of pictures to the Earth?
Can you show me any form of evidence for this modified unmanned Surveyor probe that landed on the Moon in April 1972?
Picture AS-16-114-18439 of the Apollo 16 Schmidt Telescope, also shows an astronaut silhouetted in the background.
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A16's Schmidt Far UV camera was placed by a modified unmanned Surveyer.
A11,A14,A15 Surveyers deployed retroreflectors, A16's Surveyer deployed the camera and transmitter, but no reflector.
The pics the camera took show a flat featureless plain and no A16 a/nots or equipment.
The camera maybe is there and it's pics maybe genuine, but it wasn't placed there by an a/not on the Moon's surface.
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As I suspected, the Apollo 16 UV Schmidt camera took pictures of the Earth with many background stars, and all stars are in the correct position.
Here is one of those pictures - AS16-123-19657
Keel, William C. "The Earth and Stars in the Lunar Sky", Skeptical inquirer, Vol. 31, No. 4, July 2007, pp 47-50.
In the BBC book 'Tomorrow's World' (1970) page 130, it says of future tasks planned for the J series Apollo 15-17: "There will also be a mapping camera on board taking high-quality shots of the surface simultaneously with pictures of the positions of the stars relative to the camera. Through the correlation of these two pictures cartographers will learn the exact location and dimensions of the area mapped." I ask NASA was this done or not? Such pictures would prove the a/nots moon location.
sergemck 3 years ago
I think you're talking about the Metric photography. Apparently, one of those metric shots showed a piece of wood duct-taped to a piece of glass. No joke. AS15-M-0113.
WhiteJarrah 3 years ago