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Physics, Astronomy & Cosmology / Re: Why does the Moon look large in a camera picture?
« on: 29/12/2012 16:26:49 »
"Why is the camera fooled too?"
It surely isn't. Well, it isn't capable of being 'fooled' since it isn't attempting to recognize objects. But you can make a photo show anything you want really. If you zoom into the moon and include a distant landscape into the scene, then you can make the moon look quite big in photographs. This probably requires a nice camera/lens though.
Otherwise, my guess is that photographs are one of the ways to actually show that the size of the moon is constant, depending on how you take the shot.
It surely isn't. Well, it isn't capable of being 'fooled' since it isn't attempting to recognize objects. But you can make a photo show anything you want really. If you zoom into the moon and include a distant landscape into the scene, then you can make the moon look quite big in photographs. This probably requires a nice camera/lens though.
Otherwise, my guess is that photographs are one of the ways to actually show that the size of the moon is constant, depending on how you take the shot.