True-color, short-exposure astronomy photographs?

Every single image I find of space is infrared, ultraviolet, long-exposure and other trickery. Are there any "true" images captured as if captured by an astronaut with a nikon? Why are 'real' photos of space so sparse?

Added (1). "star trails" are long exposure. I'm also talking about planets, moons, nebulas and other stuff taken with telescopes and/or in space

There are lots of pictures available that are made with regular cameras and film. Google "Star Trails."

You must not be searching.

"trickery" idiot.

Did you think to try doing a search engine search on "true color planet images"?

http://www.google.com/...net+images

Of course NOT. All you want to do is WHINE online. A camera HAS MASS. EVERYTHING that goes into space HAS MASS as well as the rocket fuel and oxidizer that gets that mass into space. NO astronaut is going to take his/her personal camera into space unless and until the mass of that camera is included and calculated into the payload of that mission.

The Moon and planet images in the source I took with a simple webcam are true color. They look much like what I see in the eyepiece, except got Mars. Mars looks a lot less colorful visually, but I processed one of the ones in the Mars group to show it more like what my eye sees. The globular cluster image at the end is a 15 minute exposure, but it doesn't look *so* different to what my eye sees. Globular clusters (and open clusters too) have a visual appearance closer to their photographs than any other deep sky objects.

In general, a true image of space would just be very dark. Certainly, planets and the Moon are bright enough to register some kind of a picture, although without a long exposure, you will see no colors. The problem is that objects in the night sky are just too dim.

There's a common misconception that things like nebulae and galaxies need magnification in order to be seen. This is not true. The classic pinwheel shape of the Andromeda Galaxy takes up a region of the sky that is 5 times the size of the full moon. A telescope is not needed to magnify the image. A telescope is needed to collect enough light to make it bright enough to see. A camera taking a "true image" of the Andromeda Galaxy as it is seen by most people would just show a black sky with a couple of stars. But if you leave the shutter open for a while focused on that same patch of sky - even with little or no magnification - then you will start to see the detail of the galaxy. Without such photographic efforts, you will see nothing.