Viewing the Sky from the Moon

I do realize that when you were on the moon,

you had very little time for gazing

upwards. But could you tell us something about what

the sky actually looks like

from the moon, the sun, the Earth, the stars, if any, and so on?

The sky is, uh, a deep black,

uh, when viewed from the moon as it is when viewed

from, uh, cislunar space, the space between the Earth and the moon.

The, uh,

the Earth is the only visible object other than the sun

that can be seen, although there have been some reports of

seeing

planets. I, myself, did not see planets from the surface,

but I

suspect they might, uh, be visible.

The Earth is quite beautiful from space, uh, as-- and from the

moon. It looks quite small and quite remote, but,

uh, it's very blue and covered with, uh,

white lace and, uh, the clouds, and the

continents are clearly seen, although they have very little color from

that

distance.

What about the sun? Could you see any trace of the corona?

No, the, uh, glare from the sun on the helmet

visor was too difficult to pick out the

corona. The only time we could see the corona

was during

eclipse of the sun from the moon, that is when we were flying through the

moon's shadow and could observe the, the, uh,

the solar corona peeking out from behind the moon.