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by dave77 » Sat Aug 13, 2022 3:10 pm
clovishound wrote: ↑Sat Aug 13, 2022 9:53 am
My understanding is that it is more about being brighter than being larger. It tricks the brain into thinking it's larger. Likewise, it's an optical illusion that the sun or moon looks larger at sunrise/moonrise and sunset/moonset.
What's interesting is although it's easy to prove it's an optical illusion, they don't completely understand why our brains see it that way.
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/1191/ ... sometimes/
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by cooperhawk » Sat Aug 13, 2022 6:46 pm
The sun and moon look larger due to moisture in the atmosphere magnifying them when they are low on the horizon.
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by clovishound » Sat Aug 13, 2022 8:51 pm
cooperhawk wrote: ↑Sat Aug 13, 2022 6:46 pm
The sun and moon look larger due to moisture in the atmosphere magnifying them when they are low on the horizon.
If that were the case, pictures of the moon taken when very low on the horizon would be measurably larger than those taken at a higher azimuth. The NASA article mentioned states that is not the case.
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by Dahliathemeh » Sun Aug 14, 2022 12:49 pm
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by RanchRoper » Sun Aug 14, 2022 4:53 pm
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by Koyote » Sun Aug 14, 2022 10:58 pm
Sturgeon moon??? Sounds fishy to me! Oh, I can hear the groans now...
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by clovishound » Sun Aug 14, 2022 11:13 pm
Well, that's where it got it's name. Tribes around the great lakes called it that as they could more easily catch these large fish during the full moon in August.
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