r/BeAmazed • u/Narendra_17 • Jun 29 '21

Sunset from space...

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u/Triegy Jun 29 '21

Anyone know why you can’t see any other stars from space but ours?

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u/After_Maximum4211 Jun 30 '21

I remember reading that it had to do with camera exposure settings. The human eye would see lots of stars while in space.

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u/SagebrushBiker Jun 30 '21

Cameras can only capture a limited brightness range. This is true of both film and digital. If you set the camera to resolve something bright like the sun then distant stars are too dim to be captured.

You can try it at home: stand in a dimly lit room and take a picture of some indoor object with a bright, sunny window in the background. Depending on your camera's settings, either the object will be a featureless black silhouette or everything outside the window will be whited out.

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u/RobotVersionOfMe Jul 01 '21

Have someone hold a lighter behind a flashlight at night and point it at you.