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Re: Plumb-line horizon vs. geocentric horizon
From: Bill B
Date: 2005 Feb 4, 00:46 -0500
From: Bill B
Date: 2005 Feb 4, 00:46 -0500
> Because the sky is perceived as a shallow bowl. Off topic, but there is a rather ambitious and amazing long-running project in a meteor crater (perhaps named after a judge?) in the southwest by an artist that uses that and other phenomena of visual perception. Bill > Quoting Alexandre Eremenko >> Why the Moon (and especially the Sun) look >> much larger when they are close to the horizon? > > Because the sky is perceived as a shallow bowl. > The bodies near the horizon, being further away, are bigger.
