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Re: [Phys-l] the Moon

I suspect that this is because stars are very dim. Check your own photographs, you don't see stars in very many of those either. If you have a nice bright foreground object like the lighted surface of the moon, the earth, or the sun, the stars don't show up.

Paul


On Dec 7, 2011, at 3:41 PM, Anthony Lapinski wrote:

I'm teaching about the Moon now in my astronomy class. I mentioned about
the lack of atmosphere there and that stars don't twinkle. One thing
that's bothered me for some time is why you never see stars photographed
from the Moon. I've seen the Earth photographed from the Moon, but there
are no stars in the image. How can this be? Light from the Earth gets in
the way? Something else?

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