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04/05/2004 12:20:49 AM · #1 |
| Hi, today one of my friends told me, that she saw the moon really huge this morning. I remember seeing this when i was really little, but not recently. She said she had to tell me about it so I can take a picture. What is this called, a moonrise, or moonset? Its early in the morning, possibly night, maybe, and the moon is REALLY big she said. Any help would be appreciated. |
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04/05/2004 12:22:32 AM · #2 |
a farmer's moon or a harvest moon?
I think a harvest moon is when it is redish though because of mars maybe?
I don't really know though :) |
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04/05/2004 12:22:58 AM · #3 |
| Moonset I guess. It was in the western sky early this morning when I went to work. |
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04/05/2004 12:26:30 AM · #4 |
Originally posted by jimmyn4:
Moonset I guess. It was in the western sky early this morning when I went to work. |
was it big? |
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04/05/2004 12:58:34 AM · #5 |
usually when the moon is full and during moon rise and moon set it will apear much larger than normal due to atmospheric conditions, its basically an optical illusion
check out these pics I took last month
Moon rise
the same goes for the sun
Sunset
James
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04/05/2004 01:00:57 AM · #6 |
Originally posted by jab119:
usually when the moon is full and during moon rise and moon set it will apear much larger than normal due to atmospheric conditions, its basically an optical illusion
check out these pics I took last month
Moon rise
the same goes for the sun
Sunset
James |
yayayaya! thats what i wanna do! when is the sun the largesT? and what time of day is the moon like that? |
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04/05/2004 01:14:41 AM · #7 |
it all depends on the time of the moon rise, its different every day, usually it comes up 45 minutes later each day, but dont hold me to it....
James
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04/05/2004 01:15:53 AM · #8 |
Originally posted by jab119:
it all depends on the time of the moon rise, its different every day, usually it comes up 45 minutes later each day, but dont hold me to it....
James |
and the sunsets/rises are bigger with every full moon? if so, im going to the beach tommorow morning, or ill try. |
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04/05/2004 07:32:08 AM · #9 |
The moon is always the same size, it just looks bigger when it's lower in the sky because you can compare it to the landscape. If you take a photo when it's "big" and a photo when its "small" you can layer them over each other in photoshop and they will be exactly the same size.
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04/05/2004 08:02:45 AM · #10 |
that photo thing is wrong...the moon will be bigger in the photo if it looked larger when you took it.
the reason it looks bigger is because the earth's atmosphere actually multiplies light. The more of the atmosphere you are looking through (ie straight across the horizon at the moon), the bigger the moon will look (as opposed to looking straight up in the sky (through just a little of the earth's atmosphere). Same thing goes with the sun. |
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04/05/2004 08:03:57 AM · #11 |
It wasn't wrong when I tried it.
edit: //www.griffithobs.org/IPSMoonIllus.html
Message edited by author 2004-04-05 08:07:44.
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04/05/2004 08:31:16 AM · #12 |
Originally posted by Konador:
The moon is always the same size, it just looks bigger when it's lower in the sky because you can compare it to the landscape. If you take a photo when it's "big" and a photo when its "small" you can layer them over each other in photoshop and they will be exactly the same size. |
I will try this tonight as I took many photos of the moon the night in question of the photos I posted above
James
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