I see what you're saying.

why not just photograph earth with a camera?

I imagine it's to get every detail. Similar to how I can combine light and dark values to get HDR images.

i mean i can photograaph the moon

there's always an excuse

thought exercise...you are planning a trip to the moon. has taken many years and many millions in planning.

you will have two astronauts outside of Earth's atmosphere

for the first time in history

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make a top 10 list of things you would want to accomplish on those missions

you mean to tell me....not ONE was to bring an extra camera set up to photograph stars?!?!

but golf clubs made the cut?

they can't even decide if they remember seeing stars or not

I guess too busy playing golf to notice

I'd personally want to photograph the Milky Way. What a sight that would be.

Abso-freaking-lutely

they can never include stars

because it will give away the hoax

would be too easy to spot

I mean, exposure kind of prevents that from happening.

lol. you can adjust exposure!!!

and move off target

so you don't saturate

please

you can take long exposures of the milky way on earth

yes you can! but you'd love the planet you're shooting

it's always a ridiculous excuse. I can photograph stars in my backyard with a $20 camera

If light pollution is low enough

It helps to have an equitorial mount

of course, doc, but you wouldn't have proper exposure on anything else.

fine. let's see the stars outside of the Earth...or Saturn...or Pluto. I mean if they are making composites anyway...they just add them back into frame later

why do we not have a rover on the moon. sending photos/videos of Earth....eclipses....

why do we not, in 2019, have telescopes there?

not even a fixed camera

but we have them on MARS?!?!

lol

"If a story doesn't make sense, it's not true" Judge Judy

judge judy!

would you not start out on the moon....get it right there...then go to a farther planet?

these stories are preposterous

tell me about it