Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/12/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Marc wrote: >This is certainly an "optical effect" but it is one as real to chemistry as >to the eye. That is, shooting a picture of the moon near the horizon makes >it seem larger than it really is, due to the effect of refraction through >the greater envelope of atmosphere, rather than the niggardly one when the >moon is overhead. (The difference is something along the lines of 100 >miles of air vertically versus 350 or 400 miles horizontally.) Hi Marc, I figured the atmosphere must have something to do with it, the same as the sun rise / set effect of bigger as it comes over or disappears from the horizon. But you know me and technical things! :) ted. Ted Grant This is Our Work. The Legacy of Sir William Osler. http://www.islandnet.com/~tedgrant