It is responsible for the tides of our world and plays an important role in the continuity of life. Moonhas and continues to attract the attention of anyone interested in astronomy from the past to the present. fast moving Technical developments As a result, the projects that want to resurface today are very close to delivering results.

However, the topic we’ll be focusing on in this content isn’t how we set foot on the moon’s surface again, but how we’re already beyond our world. as it appears in deceptive ways will be relevant. In this context, it would be wrong to say that the moon takes different forms. Because it doesn’t lose any of its size or speed. For this reason, some your illusions is believed to have arisen. Now let’s look at them together.

Let’s discuss a few illusions we’re used to seeing on social media: first, the Ponzo illusion

Looking at the horizon in the movie world and in normal life Moonlooks bigger than the top. Here first of all your perspective thought to play a role. For example, imagine a straight road with trees of the same height on both sides. If you look out for this road, you will see that it narrows and the trees get smaller.

But actually these trees same size You know they are small and that this little apparition will disappear as you get closer. If you put two lines of the same length on the part of this tree-lined road closest to you and the part where it narrows, and try to look at them from a distance, the game your brain plays with you You can see more easily. This one Ponzo illusion it is called.

Could it be that the Moon appears large on the horizon because it is next to objects of similar size? The following is the Ebbinghaus illusion

German psychologist by Hermann Ebbinghause This illusion he puts forward consists in making it appear that there is a size difference between two objects of the same size, when objects of different sizes are placed around two objects of the same size. This situation, which you can understand from the picture above, puts the objects in our head. how we save let’s say it’s over.

With skyscrapers and tall buildings ‘big’ We write as. Looking at these structures from a distance even if they look small we know that they are large in reality, and the moon which is behind them and appears larger than themselves, therefore appears larger on the horizon than in the sky.

So if there’s nothing around to compare it to the size of the moon, do we see the moon the same way at every location?

We’d like to call it true and end the mystery here, but it’s not just people living in cities or rural areas who say the moon appears bigger on the horizon. There are no nearby objects to compare to the moon. pilots and sailors reports the same problem.

We see the sky much closer than it actually is:

• The actual location of the moon and our perception

Photographer interested in astronomy, albeit an amateur Bob King; He emphasizes that we perceive the horizon as far away and the sky much closer than it actually is. Think of these statements like this: If you want to reach the moon you see on the horizon, it feels like you’re going to go forever.

On the other hand, the sky appears much lower than it actually is. So according to these statementsObjects that we see from afar grows closer‘ as the thought is in our mind and the horizon deviates from the sky. it’s further As we perceive it as such, an error occurs.

We knock on our final door to clear up the confusion: convergent reduction.

Unfortunately, this concept doesn’t explain why the moon appears larger on the horizon. But why at the top as small It can help you understand what it looks like. When you see the moon on the horizon, focus on what is far away. For example, if this is an ocean, when looking at the moon, our brain also takes into account the far point of the ocean, and that we look away understands.

Because we see it that way from a distance,the moon must be big‘ we think. But when our satellite takes off, there’s no place to focus like the ocean or the mountain. Because focus is not achieved, the moon is in the sky. as it is on the horizon doesn’t get far. That is him more than usual near It makes us perceive and see as if we were small.

Was there a need for so much confusion? If the moon is in an elliptical orbit around the earth, couldn’t it grow as it gets closer to the planet?

In theory yes, in practice no. In fact, in the practical part, yes, but even though there are periods when the moon is close to the earth, in these times it is not so much. a little growth it is noted that it is not even noticed. For this reason, it is difficult to attribute the Moon’s position on the horizon and in the sky to its approach to Earth. would make no sense.

Astronomers are still working on the exact reason why the moon created such a misconception. This state of misconception has puzzled scientists since ancient times.

sources: Rationalist, Andrew Vanden Heuvel, Sky and Telescope