cool image

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You know what always bugs me about images of the moon landings... You never see any stars in the moon-sky. Where are the stars? I'm guessing they're not obscured by clouds.

I think that the contrast between the bright moon surface and the dark balck space leaves little room for those little stars. Just like in the day time on earth.

It's to do with exposure time for the photographs.
From http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2001/ast23feb_2.htm
]]Most photographers already know the answer: It's difficult to capture something very bright and something else very dim on the same piece of film -- typical emulsions don't have enough "dynamic range." Astronauts striding across the bright lunar soil in their sunlit spacesuits were literally dazzling. Setting a camera with the proper exposure for a glaring spacesuit would naturally render background stars too faint to see.[[

oh admit it we never went to the moon! ;)

Cool photo...still impressive to see after all the exploration done to date.

Thanks for that spiffy explanation....Mr. Government Man! No really, thanks. I'm keeping this one to remind me what we're capable of.

I really prefer the art of the universe to how we got there.

The lack of stars is due to the lack of the atmosphere, wich acts as a magnifying glass on Earth.
That landig pod in the backgound seems a little out of phase with the rest of the picture, don`t you think? :))

they tried to fake the stars but it became too difficult to do properly.. any halfass astronomer could have detected the incorrect patterns, so they did away with them altogether, though they had to come up with a lame excuse for no stars. Also, most of these pictures are portrait quality in exposure and composition, even though the camera was attached to the photographer's chest and he had no way of looking through the viewfinder from inside his spacesuit. And let's not forget the lethal radiation present on the moon, which would have shown up as really bad fogging on the film.. lookup pictures of the Chernobyl cleanup, they're blurry. But then the that was the least of their problems because the film would have either broken or melted long before the picture was taken, as it was being subjected to temperatures from -200C to +200C instantaneously as the astronaut moved from sun to shadow. But then the astronaut would not be too concerned about photography at this point, his faceshield being covered with vomit from the radiation poisoning after being exposed to lethal levels of radiation in his trip through the van Allen belt. Ha ha.