It's an exposure thing.
Because the spacecraft, the moon and earth are so bright compared to its "surroundings" the small sources of light in the background essentially disappear.
It's similar to how a bright light can ruin your night vision temporary when driving. Or how after your eyes adjust to the dark you can see way more than right after you turned the lights out.
I'm not sure what photography equipment they used onboard. I'm sure it's all custom..
However, it's purely an artifact of the equipment and the post processing of the image. A photography trick that would get better results with all the stars and such in the background would be a method called HDR (High dynamic range). This more closely captures what the human eye sees
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It's an exposure thing. Because the spacecraft, the moon and earth are so bright compared to its "surroundings" the small sources of light in the background essentially disappear.
It's similar to how a bright light can ruin your night vision temporary when driving. Or how after your eyes adjust to the dark you can see way more than right after you turned the lights out.
I'm not sure what photography equipment they used onboard. I'm sure it's all custom.. However, it's purely an artifact of the equipment and the post processing of the image. A photography trick that would get better results with all the stars and such in the background would be a method called HDR (High dynamic range). This more closely captures what the human eye sees