The  Rebuttal: Debunking the Conspiracy Theorists
 1.5 How can the crosshairs that are part of the camera be located behind objects in several of the Apollo lunar surface photos?
 
ü The conspiracy theorists have posed the question: “Why do cross hairs vanish over sunlit white objects?”
A bright white object can saturate and bleed over into adjacent areas, obliterating the thin crosshair.
ü The answer is that strong luminosity can wash out thin lines.