Why didn't Michael Collins take any photograph or footage of space while going over the dark side of the moon?

[CommunicationMoonRelay]

They say that stars in space are not visible seen from the bright side of the moon due to the intensity of the sunlight, right?

But seen from the dark side of the moon, wouldn't stars be visible?

Why didn't Michael Collins take any photograph or footage of space while going over the dark side of the moon?

 

[Pogo]

Besides the fact that he was pretty busy with station keeping chores, the hand held Hasselblad camera with an 80 mm lens pointing through the thick windows of the command module would not have produced anything spectacular shooting stars. They were designed more for lunar shots and shots of the lunar module.

 

[matthewo]

Because you cannot take pictures of the night side of the Moon. It is too dark.

 

[billslugg]

You can take pictures of stars on the bright side of the Moon. However the cameras are taking pictures of people in bright sunlight. The rule of thumb for this is f8, 1/250 with ASA 100. Keep the shutter open about ten seconds and you'd get some nice star points. Unfortunately your humans would be pure white with no detail. There would have been no scientific value to such an exposure, bright side or dark side, thus it was not done. They had very limited amounts of film with them.

 

[COLGeek]

Dark side of the moon is a misnomer. It is "dark", as in unknown. Not dark as in relation to an absence of light.

Tidal locking keeps one side facing the Earth.

Far side of the Moon - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[Pogo]

I think Matt was speaking of taking pictures at any location during nighttime. But, it would still require a long exposure to get stars to show up decently.

 

[billslugg]

When I refer to the dark side of the Moon I am thinking relative to the Sun, not the Earth. We can see the dark side every New Moon.