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Star Light - Star Bright / Chap. 5 p. 34
point, a visible star is an intensely bright shaft of light, much brighter even than the reflected
sunlight from the Moon. As you may know, you can see the Moon in the daytime, when it's
invisible to all who don't know the secret. All you have to know is exactly where to look, and
simply sight it through a tube made out of your hands. I have been told that stars can be seen
in the daytime by making a long black paper tube and then sighting through it. I have also
read that stars are also visible from mine shafts and deep wells during the day.
Unfortunately, Apollo 11 was not the only mission during which star-blindness was a
problem. Hurt reports this about the Apollo 14 mission, "The astronauts had a hard time
seeing the stars even with the help of a special 'monocular' (half a binocular) used to
supplement the scanning telescope and the sextant. Due to the absence of an atmosphere to
refract and filter light, the stars do not twinkle in cislunar space. Rather, as Stu Roosa puts it,
"The stars look like little points of light or fuzzy little dots." 13
On that same mission Roosa's crew-mate Ed Mitchell got into the act. "It's a very eerie
feeling. You suddenly start to recognize that, yeah, you're in deep space, that the planets are
just that, planets, and that you're not really connected to anything any more, that you are
floating through this deep black void." 14
One of pilot Stu Roosa's jobs, as his partners descended and traipsed about on the Moon,
was to take photos of the dark side of the Moon for mapping purposes while he orbited it. He
reports, "That dim light photography was very complicated because you had to do it in total
blackness, the blackest you can ever put a human being in without closing him in an absolute
black room. You have no earth light, you have no sunlight, you have no reflected light
bending the corners anywhere. It is black-black." 15
What has me perplexed is that he is now talking about mapping photos he took of the
dark side of the Moon. If it was that dark how did he get the pictures His film is apparently
fast enough to take pictures of a black body but not fast enough to see a star
And Gene Cernan on the Apollo 17 also talked about his star-blindness. Hurt wrote,
"When the sunlight comes through the blackness of space, it's black. I didn't say it's dark, I
said black. So black you can't even conceive how black it is in your mind. The sunlight
doesn't strike on anything, so all you see is black." I6
No mention of stars, not even dim and fuzzy ones; no mention of planets either. I began
to wonder why NASA subsequently put up the faulty Hubbel telescope if all these Apollo
astronauts were really telling the truth. Could a telescope catch star-blindness Then I
thought of a superb super spook reason. Suppose the Hubbel was built so the CIA could
look not up at the stars but down on Earth They could then spy on the enemies of our state
day and night. Enemies like you and me. Seems to me that the wide-angle lens included
with the package is only useful when looking at the Earth. Recently I found out that Aldrin
claims that as early as 1966 the CIA had a fleet of, at least, eight recon satellites equipped
with telescopes called "Keyholes". 17
Someday I wish that some Earthbound astronomer would take a quick peek at the repaired
Hubbel during the day, when it's passing over his head. Like the monkey who was
locked in a room by a psychologist watching through the keyhole to see what he'd do, I suspect
that the Hubbel monkey might be found to be looking back at him.
To put the original disclaimer to the dim and fuzzy stars is Yuri Gagarin, the first
Russian cosmonaut, who says of his flight, "Astonishingly bright cold stars could be seen
through
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