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Originally Posted by icytailmark
Tonight i watched the moon rise as the sun was setting. The moon looked really big. Then i just went outside now and the moon is directly above and i thought to myself has the moon shrunk?
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Because when it's up ahead you have no point of reference. When it's on the horizon you see trees, buildings, etc... which give you an indication of scale and your brain does the rest. It's only perception.
... having said that it tends to get bigger in apparent diameter and fuzzier at the zenith too after a couple of
