Agreed. Current technology is unable to boost the light levels except in the most powerful of telescopes. Or should I say we are almost there? After all a handheld camera could take a well developed picture on the farside of the moon, you just need to keep it still nad have a looong exposure time.
I use to take photos at night in near darkness. I would measure my exposure times in minutes. or I would go about using a handheld flash device and make sure I would not get siloutted and walk arouns "flashing". But I can tell you from experience, photos taken in absolute darkeness looks alot like daylight photos if you expose it for a looong time.
The photos look like normal pictures, but the lights are REALLY bright.