Science
Can you believe something this beautiful happens 182 days a year?
By Emily Elert Posted 01.30.2013 at 6:01 pm 10 Comments

This is an edited, single-shot (not time-lapse) video of the moon rising over Mount Victoria Lookout in Wellington, New Zealand two days ago. It was filmed by Australian Astrophotographer Mark Gee, who was sweet enough to share it with NASA, who was awesome enough to post it as their Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD).

Moonrises happen about every 25 hours--the moon's orbit around the Earth delays its rise by about 50 minutes each day--which means that it comes up after sunset about half the time. All you need is a horizon to watch it on.

[via APOD]

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Robot
01/31/13 at 10:32 am

Where or where on the Earth can the moon be seen as big as this?

Yea, the article says it did some editing, but this is more than a slice and dice of video.

BIG MOON!

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chezmanq
01/31/13 at 12:50 pm

It's never that big. Ever.

Look up the moon illusion. It's all in our heads. This video has to be super edited.

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Mukuro Holmes
01/31/13 at 1:49 pm

Either it's super edited or the guy zoomed in several times. The people could be a lot farther away than they appear to be. Also, observe how the moon is a slight reddish color, indicating a lunar eclipse (or maybe Beijing-like levels of pollution). There could possibly be another special lunar event occurring that caused this moon to appear larger than usual.

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Mukuro Holmes
01/31/13 at 1:54 pm

I checked the source of the video at APOD and they said that the camera was placed 2 kilometres away from the Mount Victoria Lookout, meaning that the camera zoom was used extensively. Hence, the massive moon.

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Cookiees453
01/31/13 at 1:59 pm

That's not the only reason why the moon looks super big.

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/05/13/why-does-the-moon-look-so-huge-on-the-horizon/#.UQq-rWd2Qp1

Chez is right about the moon Illusion, it's just the way our brain perceives things.

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Cookiees453
01/31/13 at 2:01 pm

Probably a super moon event when there is a full moon with the moon being the closest to Earth.

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Robot
01/31/13 at 8:32 pm

I suppose it could be real, if I am watching the moon with my beer goggles on, lol.

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shutterpod
02/01/13 at 6:49 am

Edited?? Have any of you lumps ever heard of a telephoto lens? Yeeesh!

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Robot
02/01/13 at 8:04 am

shutterpod,
Yes telephoto lens to make things appear closer, bigger and in more detail;

plus magically keep the people "small"?

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