Re: Why does the moon look bigger near the horizon?

From: Stephen Paul (spaul219_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 07/06/04 

Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 14:52:08 -0400

"Tony Flanders" <tony_flanders@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> "Stephen Paul" <spaul219@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>
> > That's
> > fine, but the simple, and correct answer is still that the moon looks
big,
> > because of the reference.
>
> I'm not quite sure what you mean by "reference".
>
> The Moon illusion is *not* caused merely by having other things nearby,
> as you can verify by looking at the Moon through the branches of a tree,
> or over a tall building, when it is high in the sky. The Moon illusion
> may or may not appear in this situation, but if it appears, it is much
> weaker than when the Moon is near the horizon.

The references to which I refer, are the sensory stimulae, which are pretty
obviously not well understood.

Ammended: The moon looks big, because of the sensory stimulae (at the
horizon).

Of course, I'd be open to the possibility of gravitational lensing. <g>

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