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The mosaic image has been photoshopped to add stars to the sky. As you can see, the original two
images provided by NASA show a perfectly black sky devoid of all stars. This is typical of all of the
images provided by NASA which were purported to have been taken from the lunar surface. The
reason given for the absence of stars in photos taken from the surface of the Moon is often attributed
to the exposure setting of the astronauts’ cameras being set to daylight exposure. This explanation
seems to satisfy most people, for on Earth we do not typically see stars in the sky during the daytime.
People tend to impose onto the lunar expeditions the type of conditions which would exist on the
Earth.

In an August 12, 1969, Apollo 11 post-flight press conference, astronaut Neil Armstrong states, "We
were never able to see stars from the lunar surface or on the daylight side of the Moon by eye
without looking through the optics." Armstrong additionally affirmed that stars were visible with the
naked eye only when they were in the shadow of the Moon. With these words, we see that the Apollo
astronauts described identical viewing conditions of the heavens from the lunar surface as one would
experience from the surface of the Earth.

At the website Ask An Astronomer, Dave Kornreich answers a daycare teacher’s question regarding
why we cannot see stars shining in the sky during the daytime on Earth. At the end of his answer,
Dave Kornreich, who received his PhD from Cornell University in 2001 and is now an assistant
professor in the Department of Physics and Physical Science at Humboldt State University, adds an
interesting tidbit of information about viewing conditions from the Moon.

Q: I'm a teacher in a daycare. Each week we have a theme for are (sic) program. Last week it was
the stars in the sky. This little boy asked me "why do stars glow at night and not during the day?"
I didn't know what to answer so maybe you can help me answer this question for the little boy.
A: Stars do glow during the day, but we can't see them because of the glare of sunlight. When the
sun is up, the blue color in sunlight gets scattered all over the atmosphere, turning the sky the
familiar bright blue color. This blue light is much brighter than the faint light coming from the stars,
so it prevents us from seeing them.