Spectacular moonrise video..

[Mojocvh]

Perhaps spectacular doesn't do it justice.....



https://player.vimeo.com/video/137218768

[Rh14n]

Wow!

[BoredNerd]

What's the situation with the size of the moon in the sky?

I.e. it could look massive to the eye, but try to take a picture and it's no bigger than it would usually look. Also, something about if you were to hold say your thumb up at a set distance and measured the size of the unusually large moon in relation to your thumb, it would be no bigger (to scale) as it were when 'normal' size?

I could be getting my wires crossed. But, if it's massive-ness is an optical illusion, how can you capture that in a camera?

[tapkaJohnD]

The video is taken through a telescopic lens, that magnifies the image.
But the illusion that the Moon is bigger the nearer it is the horizon is well known but not well explained.
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_illusion

John

[BoredNerd]

Ah right. That's why I don't understand - because nobody does! Ha.

Thanks for the link.