Re: Maybe not a photography question
 

On Saturday, November 10, 2012 6:35:31 AM UTC, rfd...@optonline.net wrote:
> Maybe more like an astronomy question but I'll ask anyway.
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> You know how when sometimes the moon looks like it's ten times bigger as it's
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> just coming up or going down? I've heard that it's an optrical illusion. If you
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> take a picture of it, does it show up in it's regular size or in that super big
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Patrick Moore used to give it the pebble test, in that you take a pebble that can cover the moon at arms lenght, and you'll find that the same pebble will cover the moon irrespctive of the size the moon appears whether it be high in the sky or low on the horizion proving it's an optical illusion.