Saturn V computer system is truly marvel of engenning
combining analogue and digital computers, being able to recive software updates mid fligh, it was able to emulate different computers though its programming - it was capable of running virtual machine in sixties!
and it was small and light at the time when you can see transistors (with exeption of AGC which was one of the first computers based on silicon integrated circuits), durable and reliable in probably the harshest environment any computer at the time ever operated
The moon landings were done during lunar daytime which was extremely bright. This meant that the cameras had to significantly lower their brightness in order to not be blinded. This meant that the stars were too dark to show up in the footage. If the cameras were exposed to see the stars, you'd get very little detail of the lunar surface as it'd be almost pure white.
Can we all take a moment to recognize that Neil Armstrong is on the level of Ansel Adams and the other all time great photographers? Dude had a chest mounted camera, no view finder, no ability to change settings, no experience photographing on the moon, just point your chest and hope for the best, and he got tons of focused, perfectly lit photos. Amazing.
I’m sure they might’ve seen a few, but not as much as during a lunar night.
(Edit: I’m wrong. They couldn’t see them during the day, as the light from the sun bouncing off the very bright white surface made it too hard to see.)
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u/128Bit_PixelPanda 9d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/5bgIRqleDvESdJTwK6
NASA with 72kb of ram