Daimo B
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I do enjoy a good moonlite evening, especially when the moon first shows itself and its in orbit very close to the earth.... See the largest full moon in Dec, largest moon of 2008....
Question is, why don't we get good moons like this. We do get the odd really close moon where you can make out a lot of things, but viewing the site this image comes from, it seems the world gets lots of stunning shots, moon in allignment with other planet etc etc....
Any space fans know of dates to lookout for with good skies? I only get a good view to the North - East - South, west is covered by my house....
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John
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That will be a massive zoom lens on a camera.
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Hammer
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Originally posted by VXR
Question is, why don't we get good moons like this.
The earth only has one moon Daimo 
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DannyB
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Was going to say, surely that can't be real? We're never that close for it to be THAT big?
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John
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The site you were looking at wasn't the nasa site that picture comes from was it, I think they've possibly got some fancy equipment and know exactly when is best 
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C2RL R
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my dad has a book that he bought when he got his telescope. i'm sure it has all the info you require in it. i'll call him later and ask the name of it.
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Daimo B
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See you say its a zoom lens....
But then look at the observatory in front of it on the hill. If it was THAT zoomed in on, the buildling would be huge as well???
It might be zoomed, but the moon is still that size at this point.
John, yeah its a relation to the NASA site, some are Nasa images, some are taken by people with normal cameras (such as this one).
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John
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It's a matter of perspective, from whatever angle they've taken it the observatory is still tiny compared to apparent size of the moon.
Unless they've photoshopped it, which is quite common with these sort of pictures, it's nothing more than perspective.
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DannyB
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It could be photoshopped, zoomed in on the moon but placed it behind a pic of the observatory at normal zoom.
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AdZ9
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Could it be photoshopped? that would be easy to fake, especially as the pic quality is crap anyway
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John
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It actually tells you underneath the picture 
Captured in this lovely telescopic view
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Daimo B
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Originally posted by DannyB
Was going to say, surely that can't be real? We're never that close for it to be THAT big?
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Originally posted by VXR
See the largest full moon in Dec, largest moon of 2008....
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Daimo B
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Originally posted by John
It actually tells you underneath the picture
Captured in this lovely telescopic view
Aye, telescopic, but the moon is still that size in relation to the view you have.
If your 10 miles from the observatory, then you've gotta zoom, but the moon is still the same size.
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John
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It's real, its taken from a well chosen location, looks to be majorly cropped, very cleverly to make the moon appear absolutely massive.
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Jake
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and look at the quality of the picture, surely to goodness with the kind of photography floating about these days you'd find better pictures than that! perspective
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DannyB
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Yes I read that, but, it looks far too big to be real. If you get what I mean.
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John
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Think about it as from wherever they took that picture the moon was normal size to the naked eye and the observatory was invisible, that's all it is.
Also, that observatory is 4200 feet up, if they're taking that from nearer sea level miles away think about distances involved, to the camera the observatory is basically at the same distance as the moon.
[Edited on 17-12-2008 by John]
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DannyB
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Think about it as from wherever they took that picture the moon was normal size to the naked eye and the observatory was invisible, that's all it is.
That makes sense, I get what you mean now.
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Daimo B
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Originally posted by John
Think about it as from wherever they took that picture the moon was normal size to the naked eye and the observatory was invisible, that's all it is.
Also, that observatory is 4200 feet up, if they're taking that from nearer sea level miles away think about distances involved, to the camera the observatory is basically at the same distance as the moon.
[Edited on 17-12-2008 by John]
Good point. But if you were AT the obseritory, then surley the moon size in relation as to how close to the earth it was, would mean that it looks huge? And you've also put IF the shot was at sea level, and given the angle, i'd say its morelike its on another hill peak.
As for the image quality, who cares, its only theorists that bang on about everything digital being a photoshop..... Its one of the more milder shots off the site anyway. Some are fantastic.
[Edited on 17-12-2008 by VXR]
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John
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The moon still probably looks huge, but not as huge as the perspective in that picture makes you believe.
The quality is because it's croppped in for the effect imo.
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Scotty_B
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Thats probably a 200% crop for effect.
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Simon
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It's not a camera or photoshop trick, I had a lecture back in uni which touched on this, there is some reason that the Moon can appear larger when viewed on the horizon, an optical illusion, I dont think anybody has actaully fully worked out why this is though.
[Edited on 17-12-2008 by Simon]
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Daimo B
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I thought the moon didn't do a perfect rotation, more that its orbit is not circular hence some moons its closer than others?
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