karn@eagle.UUCP (07/20/83)
I think the real reason is that they don't want large numbers of people wandering around the desert in the dark. My favorite occasion in which a person tried to use a flash camera to take a picture of a faraway object was on Feb 26, 1979. A friend and I were setting up our telescopes in Oregon to watch the total solar eclipse that occurred that day, and some lady walked by with a flash camera. One of us asked her why she had a flash, and she said "It'll get dark, won't it?" Neither of us had the time to explain it to her. Phil
tag@tty3b.UUCP (07/21/83)
You mentioned taking flash pictures of eclipses, etc. The *REAL* reason this don't work is 'cause light takes 2 or 3 seconds to go to the moon and back! Don't you see? The camera shutter is already closed by the time the flash returns! - Tom Gloger :-)