Why go to the moon to answer your experiment, why not just look at the wealth of photos taken from earth where the dominant celestial body is lit up by the sun?
Honestly, if you really know as much about cameras as you claim, please tell me which exposure, aperture, and film speed they should have used to overcome the contrast saturation?
On earth we cant see stars during the day either. Weird how suddenly around sunset we magically start to see them.
