Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/12/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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.