**If you have ever studied painting or photography you would know this effect as "Perspective".
**This is because the cameras were not set to be sensitive enough to record starlight. I do Astrophotography as a hobby and I can tell you for sure that a camera set to photograph a scene with normal light will never capture the stars. On the other hand, a camera set to capture an image of stars will be over exposed if you try to take a picture of a scene with normal light.
**Something else that most people don't know is that the astronauts on the moon could not see the stars! The sunlight and landscape were too bright and caused their eyes to not be "dark adapted" (Dark adapted is what allows you to see things, like stars, in the dark).
Elsewhere;
Oddly enough, I *did* study Art, and I'm familiar with the term "perspective"! I remember having to sketch long streets, both city and country, for a grade. It wasn't easy to duplicate what the eye sees naturally. I struggled over those sketches, trying to get them to look perfect and not out of kilter. Years later my #2 son comes along and has a real passion for drawing entire and extremely detailed drawings in perfect scale back in Junior High school! Go figure!
What I meant by the "shadows", were pertaining to the astronauts having two shadows as if light sources were coming from two different places, like sound studios have (were they called Kleig lights?)
Your hobby sounds fascinating! I'll bet you have some GREAT pictures! I wasn't aware that the sunlight and the surrounding landscape on the moon would obliterate being able to see the stars. You've explained all of this very well. I've always said that I've learned so much on this board, and not always JW-related. Thanks for your input.
**NO the moon landings were quite real... My uncle was there thank you... I have a piece of the moon.
Barney;
Thanks for your post. How interesting! It must be quite a conversation piece, and will continue to be for future generations. I hope I didn't offend anyone with my topic, I never thought that might happen. It was only for conversation's sake and I wanted to see if anyone else had seen a program like this or if they had any comments about it.
I didn't say *I* believed it, but that there *was* a theory introduced and I thought it would be interesting to hear different views on it. I carefully worded my opening post so that I purposely avoided saying what I personally believed so that others wouldn't be intimidated in sharing their ideas.
hugs to all,
Annie
