by Ann » Sat Nov 24, 2018 2:20 pm
De58te wrote: ↑Sat Nov 24, 2018 10:35 am
Weird. Where I live, Canada, even with the Moon Illusion where the Moon appears bigger near the horizon, I have never seen Venus twice the size of the moon. It usually appears like Jupiter is in the picture.
I'm not the right person to answer you here.
As you can see, however, the Moon is new(?) and very low in the sky, near the horizon. Presumably, the Moon would look downright faint here to visual observers.
Venus and Jupiter, by contrast, would be unreddened by dust and visually bright, clearly brighter than the faint and reddened Moon. Venus would be so bright, in fact, that its brightness would cause "pixel bleeding" and make the planet look larger in the picture than it would to the eye. Another possibility is that the night when this photo was taken was misty, and the mist made the planets look larger than they usually do.
Ann
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Weird. Where I live, Canada, even with the Moon Illusion where the Moon appears bigger near the horizon, I have never seen Venus twice the size of the moon. It usually appears like Jupiter is in the picture.
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I'm not the right person to answer you here.
As you can see, however, the Moon is new(?) and very low in the sky, near the horizon. Presumably, the Moon would look downright faint here to visual observers.
Venus and Jupiter, by contrast, would be unreddened by dust and visually bright, clearly brighter than the faint and reddened Moon. Venus would be so bright, in fact, that its brightness would cause "pixel bleeding" and make the planet look larger in the picture than it would to the eye. Another possibility is that the night when this photo was taken was misty, and the mist made the planets look larger than they usually do.
Ann