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[-] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 4 points 19 hours ago

Because we automatically compare the moon with objects on the horizon and they makes it look big in our mind, but if you objectively compare it to the entire sky it's small.

[-] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 2 points 18 hours ago

I don't think that's all. A friend and I spent half an hour debating whether an object was the moon or a huge billboard, because it was aligned with a building on the horizon. But I took a picture and it wasn't nearly big enough to span the roof of the building we were looking at.

[-] Ziglin@lemmy.world 2 points 52 minutes ago

So that would be an argument for the focal length of the cameras being relevant I thimk? That seems rather plausible.

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