M-O-O-N spells Alaska!

TorgoX on 2003-05-10T10:37:06

Dear Log,

I knew before I got to Juneau that the high latitude would make for a very different solar ecliptic (i.e., the apparent path of the sun across the sky). But it only recently occurred to me that the lunar ecliptic must be very different to -- or rather, I simply observed this fact.


The Moon Illusion

jordan on 2003-05-10T11:28:59

Yes, but did you realize that the appearance of the moon being very large on the horizon is actually an optical illusion?