Moon in June (2)

#1 (**permalink**) 23-June-2005, 07:52 AM

The biggest & brightest in 20 years (according to the BBC)

#2 (**permalink**) 23-June-2005, 07:54 AM

Moon Rising over the Rhondda Valley

#3 (**permalink**) 23-June-2005, 04:06 PM

The BBC used it on their webpage

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/brea...ast/4122124.stm

Fraser · #4 (**permalink**) 23-June-2005, 05:51 PM

Nice going Malo!

imported_Harald · #5 (**permalink**) 23-June-2005, 09:36 PM

How is it possible that I never saw a moon that big? I wonder why in films (like E.T.) it is always that big and plastic. In films you always see that it is a ball. But with my own naked eye it always seems to be a dirty flat disk.

I happened to see the moon here in Germany at 04:30. It was already close to the horizon in the south. Then it always seems bigger and warmer in colour (almost orange), but weaker and not at all sharp. This must somehow be due to the atmosphere, as it is the same with the sun.

Big Brother Dunk · #6 (**permalink**) 25-June-2005, 06:07 AM

Very nice shots.
And very cool to have them used by BBC. B)

Spacemad · #7 (**permalink**) 25-June-2005, 11:59 PM

I agree wholeheartly with Big Brother Dunk! :P Very nice images, Malo!

Thursday night as I went to work (I began at 12 midnight) I saw the Moon, not as big perhaps as on the day before but nevertheless bigger than we normally see it, & it looked lovely so low in the sky. I would have liked to have taken a picture of it but I had no power in the batteries in my digicam!

:angry: Yet I now remember having read an article on why the Moon appears bigger to the human eye but apparently its always the same size to the camera's lense. I can't find the article now but it made interesting reading!

soloh · #8 (**permalink**) 28-June-2005, 04:13 PM

NICE PIX MALO...

aeolus · #9 (**permalink**) 28-June-2005, 04:27 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Spacemad@Jun 25 2005, 10:59 PM
Yet I now remember having read an article on why the Moon appears bigger to the human eye but apparently its always the same size to the camera's lense.

I think it has to do with relative perception. When you're looking through the lens, all you see is the moon, as opposed to viewing it with the naked eye, there are things around to compare it to. When the moon is close to the horizon , your brain can compare it to other things, while when it is high in the sky, it is off on it's own with no sense of relative size. To convince yourself the moon is no bigger when rising than when it is high in the sky, just hold out a finger over the moon at each incidence, you'll see it is the same no matter where it is.

This doesn't explain much, bu does document the fact:
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2005/20...oonillusion.htm

Spacemad · #10 (**permalink**) 29-June-2005, 01:24 AM

Thanks, aeolus, for that link - it does seem like the one I remembered but couldn't put my "finger"!

aeolus · #11 (**permalink**) 29-June-2005, 04:55 AM

Spacemad, I posted that link at school, I knew I had a better one in my bookmarks here at home. Way more technical, way longer, but maybe this is the one you had seen before:

http://facstaff.uww.edu/mccreadd/

#12 (**permalink**) 05-July-2005, 09:40 PM

Hi All
Thanks for the comments the rest you can view here

http://www.dotphoto.com/go.asp?l=edward195...958&AID=2554455

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