<p>candle vs flag:</p><p>It's a matter of resolution. Seeing a candle means that the telescope is able to gather and focus enough light to detect the candle. However, the telescope would be hard pressed to tell you exactly where the candle is. Imagine an image on the computer, made up of pixels. Blow it up, and you see only a few pixels. While you may be able to tell if a pixel gets brighter, you cannot determine any more detail smaller than teh size of the pixel. Did it get brighter as a whole? Did something really small cause it? If so, where is it? You can't know, as all the information is lumped into that single pixel.</p><p>Telescope imaging has the same problem, partly due to the pixel nature of CCD's, and mostly due to the nature of light itself. The light from the candle is to fine a source for a telescope to pick out in detail, it's light would be smeared across a larger area. Detectable, yes, but fuzzy and indistinct.</p><p>The flag is far to small, the lander is far to small, for any telescope to pick it out of the rest of the details on the moon. The telescope would have to be ~1.5 km in diamter to be able to do so (or using interferometry have 2 telescopes linked ~1.5 km apart).</p><p> </p><p>Other pieces of proof for the moon landing:</p><p>Soviet Union didn't claim we didn't, not even in their wildest propaganda.</p><p>Moon Rocks</p><p>Ham operators worldwide tracking the radio broadcasts</p><p>Pictures and footage (haven't seen any convincing arguement that they were faked).</p><p>Laser reflectors</p><p>The Saturn V is certainly capable of doing so. </p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p align="center"><font color="#c0c0c0"><br /></font></p><p align="center"><font color="#999999"><em><font size="1">--------</font></em></font><font color="#999999"><em><font size="1">--------</font></em></font><font color="#999999"><em><font size="1">----</font></em></font><font color="#666699">SaiphMOD@gmail.com </font><font color="#999999"><em><font size="1">-------------------</font></em></font></p><p><font color="#999999"><em><font size="1">"This is my Timey Wimey Detector. Goes "bing" when there's stuff. It also fries eggs at 30 paces, wether you want it to or not actually. I've learned to stay away from hens: It's not pretty when they blow" -- </font></em></font><font size="1" color="#999999">The Tenth Doctor, "Blink"</font></p> </div>