http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11.postland.html[Comm Break]
[Gene Cernan says that, while standing in the shadow of the Apollo 17 LM, he could see some stars while he was outside. I asked the 11 crew if they had made any such experiment.]
[Armstrong - "I don't recall doing it on the surface. We tried a good bit inside."]
[Aldrin - "I guess I wouldn't have given it any hope at all."]
[Armstrong - "There was a thought that, if you could look through a tube, you would probably be able to see stars. I don't remember that we tried anything like that."]
[Aldrin - "You could see them in the AOT, which was sort of like that."]
[Armstrong - "Which was just one power (meaning a telescope with no magnification)."]
[A related question is whether or not stellar images could have been captured in any of the lunar surface photography. A discussion from Sky and Telescope Editor Dennis di Ciccio is linked here.]
[Buzz is about to do a platform alignment using the Alignment Optical Telescope ( AOT) to do star sightings.}
[Aldrin, from the 1969 Technical Debrief - "The ideal was to get a gravity direction and then to do a two-star alignment and look at the torquing angles after the two-star check which would then give an indication as to what the drift had been since the last alignment. The initial gravity alignment, combined with the two-star alignment, would produce a new location of the landing site. (See below.) Had we landed straight ahead (instead of being yawed left 13 degrees), my intent was to use Rigel in the left (rear) detent number 6 and Capella in the right (rear) detent. The 13-degree yaw moved Capella out of the right-rear detent, but Rigel was in good shape there. That's the one I used first. I then selected Navi in number 4 detent, the right rear, and that wasn't particularly satisfactory. It was quite dim and it took a good bit longer than I had hoped to get the marks on that."]
[Contrary to Buzz's statement here, the alignment procedures gave no information about landing site location. Frank O'Brien adds, " The gravity alignment and stellar alignments performed the same function, namely, to align the IMU to a known attitude. In both cases, the attitude was determined with respect to two vectors: either two stars (a stellar alignment) or one star and the local vertical as indicated by gravity (a gravity alignment). Neither procedure was used to determine position, which was the purpose of the state vector."]
А вот методичка НАСА
http://menonthemoon.narod.ru/photos_2_6.html#2_6_3 (написана тоже днем, но ничего):
Таким образом, отвечая на поставленный в заголовке вопрос «Видны ли звёзы на Луне?», мы спокойно можем сказать «Да»!
Ведь сами астронавты пишут о том же: скажем, об этом вспоминал Юджин Сернан в экспедиции «Аполлона-17» Не опровергайте Вашего авторитета Красильникова, он обидчивый.)))
Или Вы что - сторонник теории лунного заговора?
Нехорошо.
А про атмосферу - ну, сложно для Вас будет.
[i][color=#000080]Это по-отдельности мы - москали, хохлы и бульбаши, а вместе - русские. [/color][/i]
По указанной ссылке начиная после момента 103:15:26 — Олдрин описывает, как ориентировал платформу по звёздам Ригелю, Капелле, Нави.
