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Post by ArkAngel on Apr 5, 2009 10:40:12 GMT
Ok...this is an illusion you can try at home. According to many eyewitnesses, a moon (preferably full) will look about 2-3 times larger on the horizon than when compared to the sky. If any of you have seen this tell me. Personally i've never seen it myself...
I can explain it though!
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Post by Archer on Apr 5, 2009 11:09:26 GMT
It does.Try it, it looks really big.Kinda like it's coming into the Earth's orbit.Care to explain why to me?I think that it's the angle of reflection and our minds playing a trick on our eyes.But I want to know the real cause. (It's not moving though.)
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Post by ArkAngel on Apr 5, 2009 11:20:51 GMT
Ok, actually its because that our brain views the sky as beig bowl shaped rather than hemisphere. Because of this, we think the moon is further away on the horizon when its just as big, and this leads us to believe that the moon looks bigger.
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Post by Archer on Apr 5, 2009 14:07:49 GMT
So I'm only half right.Well thanks for the explanation.
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Post by shadowgregarzx on Apr 5, 2009 16:45:38 GMT
Ok...this is an illusion you can try at home. According to many eyewitnesses, a moon (preferably full) will look about 2-3 times larger on the horizon than when compared to the sky. If any of you have seen this tell me. Personally i've never seen it myself... I can explain it though! Not a question, but I have seen it before. |
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Post by some1hackme on Feb 17, 2010 1:36:17 GMT
COol
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Post by altomarelatios on Feb 17, 2010 12:21:34 GMT
That definitely counts as spam. |
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Post by hockey678 on Dec 15, 2014 23:55:17 GMT
I have seen it with my own eyes ,it was during a harvest moon and it looked HUGE it looked like the was right next to earth
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