Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/12/21

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Re: Moon beams
From: George Huczek <ghuczek@sk.sympatico.ca>
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 05:24:47 -0600

At 05:35 PM 20/12/99 -0800, Joe Codispoti wrote:
>
>I do not know an apogee from an apochromat, don't know a perigee from a
>poodle but I do know the following:
>
>The moon does appear larger at the horizon than overhead most likely because
>of atmospheric diffraction.
>
This is a popular misconception that I thought was cleared up earlier.  To
repeat, it is an optical illusion, and only that.