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projektfu
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Apollo 10 Stopped Just 47k Feet from the Moon
I think the astronauts would have seen stars but the cameras would have required longer exposures to capture them.
rimliu
on May 14, 2019
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Exposure is not the problem, dynamic range is. You could either get the stars and have surface all blown out or retain details of the surface and lose the stars.
whatshisface
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Right, and exposure is what allows you to pick between those two cases.
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