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Originally Posted by yorkietalkjilly  Actually, it's not hard to believe at all and I didn't want to leave you thinking I was a nutcase thinking the moon would grow.  I think people generally realize the moon doesn't grow or enlarge itself when it's lower on the horizon and downsize when it rises higher up - we generally only speak in perceptions or how things appear to us - not factually. When I told Christinee the October blood moon would be lower and larger, I gave her credit for automatically understanding the moon wasn't going to somehow grow larger when it was low in the sky - just that it would appear that way when she saw it in an orbit lower on the horizon. That's all I meant. |
Obviously the moon doesn't grow, but I always thought it was an atmospheric effect distorting the image of it so that the image really was larger when it had to go through more air. Sort of like the real effect where light gets redder going through more air. I was shocked to find out that huge moon is all in our heads.