Comments on: Dropping a dime on the Moon

By: El tamaño de la Super-Luna

El tamaño de la Super-Luna — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 01:45:26 +0000

[...] Plait publicó otro post el mismo día de nuestra última Superluna hasta hoy, subrayando que ninguno de nosotros “notaríamos la diferencia entre esta Luna llena y la de cualquier otro día”, básicamente porque la diferencia es insignificante y nuestros cerebros y sentido de la vista son un desastre al hacer juicios sin tener algo con el que compararlos. Aunque la Luna esté más cerca, nuestros sentidos no son capaces de captar tal cambio. [...]

By: A Potpourri of Web Links 02 « The Chronicles of Johanan Rakkav

A Potpourri of Web Links 02 « The Chronicles of Johanan Rakkav — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 19:18:15 +0000

[...] moon was as close as it gets, but the difference in size and brightness isn’t easy to spot): here, here and [...]

By: Nigel Depledge

Nigel Depledge — Tue, 08 May 2012 14:24:34 +0000

Alek (23) said:

a 500m lens and 1.4x tele-extender … i.e. 1,120mm effective reach.

Surely that makes a 700 mm equivalent, isn’t it?

By: Nigel Depledge

Nigel Depledge — Tue, 08 May 2012 14:18:11 +0000

Alek (23) said:

. . . using a Canon 7D with a 500m lens . . .

Whoa! That’s a monster lens.

Oh.

You meant mm.

By: Nigel Depledge

Nigel Depledge — Tue, 08 May 2012 14:12:40 +0000

Pete JAckson (10) said:

I looked at the nearly full moon last night, and, while it didn’t necessarily look bigger than usual, I could definitely see more details of the Maria than I normally do. I did an experiment looking at a globe of the Earth from across the room, and then moving 1/7 of the distance closer, and you really do pick up significantly more detail!

So try tonight to see if you can see more of the ‘Man in the Moon’ than you have seen before.

OK, that’s a comparison between the perigean full moon and the apogean full moon.

But last month’s full moon, being reasonably close to perigee, was only about 1% farther away than the “supermoon”. So the “supermoon” will look pretty much no different from last month’s full moon.

By: Roger

Roger — Mon, 07 May 2012 20:13:17 +0000

It’s interesting how the “moon illusion” is lost when you take a photo. One evening I was at a theme park in Orlando. I had brought a tripod and SLR camera to get pictures of the park at night. The full moon over one of the attractions looked incredible. So, I set up the tripod and took several photos. When I got them back, I was disappointed at how small the moon appeared. Of course, a visit to nasa.gov to find a high-res image of the moon and a few minutes using Photoshop fixed the photos!

By: supermoon | Girl Geekery

supermoon | Girl Geekery — Mon, 07 May 2012 18:12:22 +0000

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By: EnglishAtheist

EnglishAtheist — Mon, 07 May 2012 15:04:59 +0000

Made me think of this Dr Who clip:

http://furtherthoughtsfortheday.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/supermoon-with-phil-plait-and-added-dr.html

By: Eric

Eric — Mon, 07 May 2012 14:13:12 +0000

As an additional factoid, if you were on the moon Sat night, you’d have to hold a dime 501mm (just over 19″) from your eye to eclipse the earth.

By: Malcolm

Malcolm — Mon, 07 May 2012 01:43:47 +0000

SUPERMOON – making Lycans more powerful than a speeding locomotive and able to leap tall buildings with a single bound. They are pretty rare so let’s not do the bullet thing, okay.