Well partly, but part of it is just no one has a very good mental idea of how big the moon is (if you hold out your hand at arm’s length you should be able to cover it with the width of your thumb). When you see it pretty close to the horizon with actual context it looks a lot bigger than it really is. But then when you take a picture of it all that context goes away because you zoom in on the moon.
Well partly, but part of it is just no one has a very good mental idea of how big the moon is (if you hold out your hand at arm’s length you should be able to cover it with the width of your thumb). When you see it pretty close to the horizon with actual context it looks a lot bigger than it really is. But then when you take a picture of it all that context goes away because you zoom in on the moon.