I know that you can't see the flag on the moon with any telescopes but?

Question

is it possible to see the shadows cast (by the various stuff we left up there) at sunrise or sunset? Would they stretch out long enough to be picked up? Would you still need an observatory type telescope to see something like that? Or no such luck?

Answer 1

dont think so

Answer 2

No, they are still too small - too short and too narrow.  And still not worth our time - while the rest of us might say, hey, cool, there's no scientific value and nothing will ever convince conspiracy theorists.

Answer 3

flags (plural).

No.  The smallest object resolvable by the Hubble telescope is around 80 m (almost 300 ft).  That would be as one blob (or one dot on a picture).

If you want to confirm the shape of something (like a shadow), you need at least 2x2 = 4 blobs (10 would be better), so that any object has to be at least 600 ft across (1000 ft would be better).

Although ground based telescope are bigger than the Hubble Space telescope, the atmosphere does not allow them to get a much better view (even with adaptive optics).

The base of the Lunar module (that part that was left behind when the upper part came back up) is around 6 feet tall and 14 feet wide.  When the Sun is only 1 degree above the local horizon, the shadow is only 300 ft long (and 14 feet wide), barely long enough (but not wide enough) to be seen as 1 dot on a Hubble picture.

Unfortunately, anything else in the area that is 6 ft tall (any big boulder) would cast a similar shadow.

Answer 4

im pretty sure its not possible

Answer 5

No, even if the shadows couls stretch long enough to be detected, there would then be no way to pick them out of the other background shadowing.

Nothing earth based will ever be able to resolve a small enough object to detect the moon landing objects.

Answer 6

NO... everything is too small....

Answer 7

You can't see anything left on the moon because no body has gone there. It was all just a fake. Flags can't fly without an atmosphere, but someone they got it to...........