Driving westbound on the M4 this morning at 7.30am and I saw a truly beautiful sight – a massive moon (looked much bigger than usual) and bright orange, just above the horizon. Did anyone else see it, or better still, get a picture? Nature’s a wonderful thing.
Any chance of posting the pics, Ton? It was an amazing sight, wasn’t it?
Great pics, Andrew. It looked much bigger in the sky in Wales than it appears in your photos.
without wishing to teach this grandmother to suck eggs….:)
The moon looks bigger when it is full and seen near the horizon as it is given referencing scale by the horizon detail which is obviously missing when it’s just swimming around in the inky blackness.
The moon looks bigger when it is full and seen near the horizon as it is given referencing scale by the horizon detail which is obviously missing when it’s just swimming around in the inky blackness.
Yep quite stunning early this morning. Cycling to work through dark woods with the moon shining through the trees. Quite stunning. Frigging cold though in shorts.
Yesterday morning I know, but it was amazing. Watched it looking white from the platform waiting for my train, then woke up on said train half an hour later to stare at this enormous orangey-red orb that was filling the sky. I was lucky enough to watch it start to dip below the horizon and then a couple of minutes later the first lightness from the sun appeared from behind me. Superb.
(And it made me notice waiting for the train this morning that exactly 24 hours later the moon is in a quite different bit of the sky).
“The moon looks bigger when it is full and seen near the horizon as it is given referencing scale by the horizon detail which is obviously missing when it’s just swimming around in the inky blackness”
explain that one again
the moon doesn’t get noticeably bigger or smaller, but it looks bigger when it’s near the horizon – apparently, i’ve never noticed this.
supposedly: when you look up at moon in the night sky, there’s very little around it that we can ‘scale’ from (buildings, trees, etc.) so our brains dismiss it as a small white disc, about the size of a grapeorsomething, very small.
when we see the moon low on the horizon, next to buildings, trees, etc. our brains are given a reference scale – ‘look! – it’s as big as that tree!’
etc.
supposedly…
(i’ve never noticed this effect)
and yes, it was especially beautiful this morning!
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