{"id":699,"date":"2022-09-05T19:52:51","date_gmt":"2022-09-05T19:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/georgenowik.com\/?p=699"},"modified":"2022-09-05T20:43:41","modified_gmt":"2022-09-05T20:43:41","slug":"large-full-moon-isnt-large","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgenowik.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/05\/large-full-moon-isnt-large\/","title":{"rendered":"Large Full Moon Isn&#8217;t Large!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:104%;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column 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id=\"audio-699-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/georgenowik.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Episode-042-Large-Full-Moon-Isnt-Large.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/georgenowik.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Episode-042-Large-Full-Moon-Isnt-Large.mp3\">https:\/\/georgenowik.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Episode-042-Large-Full-Moon-Isnt-Large.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><h2>~ Or: If it&#8217;s really a paper moon, the red version is my favorite<\/h2>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t <em>entirely<\/em> the same as &#8220;Objects in the side view mirror may appear closer than they are&#8221;.\u00a0 Except for the part where it is.\u00a0 Take, for example, the large moon on a full night.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who knows me knows that I&#8217;ve always been kinda fascinated by the moon.\u00a0 How it looks at difference phases, when it can be seen, how bright it can be, why it&#8217;s not made of cheese, and how far that golf ball really did get whacked across its surface.<\/p>\n<p>From as far back as I can remember to middle school science, why the moon looked larger on the horizon was a slam dunk case:<\/p>\n<p>The moon is larger on the horizon because of refraction.\u00a0 The atmosphere acts as a lens and causes for the moon to look bigger than it is because it is being magnified.\u00a0 Therefore, the moon &#8211; and sun &#8211; are of a larger viewable diameter because of that refraction effect.<\/p>\n<p>The end.<\/p>\n<p>So now imagine carrying that notion for most of your life.\u00a0 Now fast forward to being today-years-old and finding out that the refraction effect of the atmosphere actually has very little to do with the size of objects on the horizon.<\/p>\n<p>Turns out, it&#8217;s a trick our brains play on us.\u00a0 Celestial objects on the horizon are not, in fact, any larger than they are in the sky above us.<\/p>\n<p>Wait &#8230;.. what?<\/p>\n<p>When I set out to write this entry, it was going to try to be a fun explanation of the m*th behind how that refraction works and all of the things that go into it.\u00a0 You know, kinda like the fishbowl effect.<\/p>\n<p>Except it has nothing to do with that refraction and now I am a blubbering mess of lies and deceit.\u00a0 In fact, I even effectuated the \u00e6ffirmation of that myth as recently as a couple weeks ago.\u00a0 So this is now my way of apologizing for <em>saying wrong things<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>On with the show!<\/p>\n<h2>The Rise and Fall of the Refraction Theory<\/h2>\n<p>The notion that refraction and light bending caused by the curvature of the atmosphere goes back more than a couple of moons.<\/p>\n<p><em>(couldn&#8217;t resist that one.\u00a0 i&#8217;ll try to refrain, even though moon puns rock my world)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Greek mathematician and musical theorist Claudius Ptolemy &#8211; don&#8217;t the Greeks have such FUN NAMES? &#8211; wrote in one of his scientific treatises in the second century an attempt to explain the size of the moon on the horizon as being due to atmospheric light refraction.\u00a0 This theory was then repeated and expanded upon by Greek astronomer Cleomedes (of no known other name.\u00a0 Kinda like Bono, Drake, Madonna, or Flea) where refraction was a primary cause but\u00a0<em>also<\/em> introduced the concept of changes in &#8220;apparent distance.&#8221;\u00a0 The concept of apparent distance, it turns out, is going to be real important in just a bit.<\/p>\n<p>But let&#8217;s stop for a moment and talk about the refraction theory in more detail.\u00a0 And then talk about why it doesn&#8217;t work.<\/p>\n<h3>What exactly is refraction<\/h3>\n<p>Refraction, at the most basic level I can think of to describe, is the bending of waves.\u00a0 Sound and light waves can be bent when passed through a medium, but we&#8217;re going to stick to light waves here.<\/p>\n<p>When light passes through something, it changes to some degree.\u00a0 What we see on our earth planet with our eyes is actually a result of refraction.\u00a0 Light passing through air changes and we perceive that perception as regular viewing.\u00a0 Once light enters another medium like, say, water, our perception of what something looks like changes because light waves move <em>slower<\/em> when entering clear liquids.\u00a0 Our perception of sound completely changes when underwater and what we hear as sounds are waves.\u00a0 Light is the same in this case!\u00a0 Light slows down once it enters water and it looks all kinds of wonky at that point where it looks like it <em>bends<\/em> an object.<\/p>\n<p>Our understanding of the concept of light hitting different or curved surfaces is not new.\u00a0 Spyglasses, binoculars, corrective lenses, even our own human eye react to light in different and creative ways.\u00a0 Our perception of light waves is based on what our eyes see.\u00a0 Bending that light through lenses can make things look closer or further away.\u00a0 Corrective lenses will bend the light in a way that allows us to see light waves clearer.<\/p>\n<p>Crazy, isn&#8217;t it??<\/p>\n<h3>How refraction works in relation to our earthly planet<\/h3>\n<p>While the idea that objects in a horizontal position as they are <span class=\"ILfuVd\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"hgKElc\">\u00e6<\/span><\/span>ffected by atmospheric perspective can trick our brains doesn&#8217;t impact viewership of the moon, there <em>are<\/em> aspects of atmospheric refraction that play a role in things we see.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re on a long road trip through Eastern Washington on a hot sunny day and the road ahead of you looks like it&#8217;s shimmering as though you missed the <em>only rain storm this month<\/em>, what you&#8217;re looking at is an illusion created by refraction.\u00a0 This can also be considered to be a mirage.\u00a0 Not like the kind you see in animated features where off in the distance it looks like there&#8217;s a pool and a palm tree and a beverage dispensary and the instant you try to jump into the pool it suddenly turns into sand.\u00a0 The kind where out in the desert it truly does look like there is water on the horizon.\u00a0 In the absence of any potable water around, that can certainly seem like an exciting thing to pursue.<\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s another story for another time.<\/p>\n<p>The mirage of water on the road in this case has to do with differences in hot air density.\u00a0 The hot air over the scorching road compared to the air surrounding it causes light to refract when passing through it.\u00a0 The end result is a shimmering effect that looks like water and a sudden panic moment where you&#8217;re going to slip on the pavement because your tires are bare and need replacing.\u00a0 This is not the case.\u00a0 You&#8217;re not going to slide.\u00a0 You probably should get your tires replaced though.\u00a0 Just saying.<\/p>\n<h3>Why refraction can&#8217;t explain moon size<\/h3>\n<p>Refraction based on the atmosphere of our earth planet does actually have an impact on the way the moon is viewed on the horizon.\u00a0 However, not in the way that we think and certainly not in the way that we see it.<\/p>\n<p>At the horizon level, the moon is actually a little bit <em>further<\/em> away from our proximity to it.\u00a0 If anything, the moon should be perceptibly smaller.<\/p>\n<p>Light passing through from the moon on the horizon to our eyes might make it look different in color.\u00a0 Yellow, sometimes even dark red like the picture I took that is the header for this post, thicker atmosphere from point A to point B will change that level of perception.\u00a0 But the size?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a mirage.\u00a0 An illusion.\u00a0 The keto-compatible fatty computer made of meat nestled ever so gently within our skulls is playing hilarious tricks on us.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s get to the bottom of that.<\/p>\n<h2>Our Eyes are Tricksy and False<\/h2>\n<p>Back to the apparent distance hypothesis.<\/p>\n<p>The short version of the trick that our eyes are playing on us has to do with how we perceive objects on the horizon in our normal daily lives.\u00a0 If the full moon is high in the sky and we look up at it and there aren&#8217;t any other objects to compare it against &#8211; like, say, a cityscape or a mountain or an actual horizon &#8211; then it looks like what we would expect it to look like.\u00a0 Small and round.<\/p>\n<p>This is where it gets weird.<\/p>\n<p>When our brains receive visual signals of a moon on the horizon, it&#8217;s trying to compensate for perspective.\u00a0 When the moon is viewed at the same time as objects on the horizon, 95% of people on our human earth have brains that are wired to perceive those objects as being larger or closer.\u00a0 It&#8217;s interesting to note that 5% of people do not actually &#8220;see&#8221; the moon on the horizon as any larger than at its peak height in the sky.<\/p>\n<p>So &#8230;. why is this?<\/p>\n<p>The answer is that scientists are not actually certain they can stick in pin in any one thing to explain it.<\/p>\n<p>The moon&#8217;s distance does not change that much no matter where it is and, therefore, the size does not either.\u00a0 Atmospheric refraction does not cause light to bend in a way that would make it look larger after all.<\/p>\n<p>There was a theory that the discovery of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.illusionsindex.org\/i\/ponzo-illusion\">Ponzo Illusion<\/a> explained the entire thing.\u00a0 Perspective and anticipated distance can trick our brains into thinking that some objects look larger or smaller than others.\u00a0 So why wouldn&#8217;t that apply to how our brains think the moon is supposed to look when compared to other objects on the horizon?<\/p>\n<p>Guess what?\u00a0 According to NASA, astronauts in orbit &#8211; without the cityscape of downtown Seattle to compare against &#8211; also see the illusion of the moon effect.\u00a0 <em>FROM SPACE<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>So, uhh, where does that leave us?<\/p>\n<h2>Snap a Picture and Capture the Soul of the Moon<\/h2>\n<p>There are tools at our fingertips that we can use to prove that the moon is actually the same size no matter where it is in the sky.<\/p>\n<p>One of those tricks is apparently to turn around, bend over, and look at the moon between your legs.\u00a0 Supposedly this will undo the trick and you will view the moon in its more conventional size and form as a result.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re like me and the idea of doing Yoga in order to look at the moon sounds nausea-inducing, there are other ways.<\/p>\n<p>The foremost of this is to take a picture.<\/p>\n<p>Similar to the way a microphone picks up sound waves in a completely agnostic way and doesn&#8217;t care one bit what your <em>ears<\/em> think they hear &#8211; try recording a guitar amplifier and compare that sound to what you heard and then spend the next forty years trying to unravel why it&#8217;s different &#8211; Johann Zahn&#8217;s &#8220;The Camera&#8221; will capture images in a way that is completely unimpacted by what our brain is trying to do to trick us.<\/p>\n<h3>Close up example<\/h3>\n<p>The following picture &#8211; also the header for this blog post, makes the moon looks huge.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_704\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-704\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-704\" src=\"https:\/\/georgenowik.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/IMG_20220811_215340_638-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Close Up Super Moon - Seattle\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/georgenowik.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/IMG_20220811_215340_638-66x66.jpg 66w, https:\/\/georgenowik.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/IMG_20220811_215340_638-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/georgenowik.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/IMG_20220811_215340_638-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/georgenowik.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/IMG_20220811_215340_638-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/georgenowik.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/IMG_20220811_215340_638-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/georgenowik.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/IMG_20220811_215340_638-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/georgenowik.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/IMG_20220811_215340_638-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/georgenowik.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/IMG_20220811_215340_638-800x800.jpg 800w, https:\/\/georgenowik.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/IMG_20220811_215340_638-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/georgenowik.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/IMG_20220811_215340_638-1200x1200.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/georgenowik.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/IMG_20220811_215340_638.jpg 1255w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-704\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Close Up Super Moon &#8211; Seattle<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Why?\u00a0 It&#8217;s all like zoomed in and st\u1d6bff!<\/p>\n<p>Granted, that looks pretty darn cool even as it is.<\/p>\n<p>But get this.\u00a0 The picture doesn&#8217;t do what it looked like to <em>me<\/em> any justice.<\/p>\n<p>My brain made my perception of the moon <em>seem<\/em> so much larger than the picture you are looking at showed.<\/p>\n<h3>Zoomed out examples<\/h3>\n<p>So now let&#8217;s contrast that to some pictures taken from further out.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_706\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-706\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-706\" src=\"https:\/\/georgenowik.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/PXL_20220812_042039111-300x226.jpg\" alt=\"Super Moon Accurate - Seattle\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/georgenowik.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/PXL_20220812_042039111-200x151.jpg 200w, https:\/\/georgenowik.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/PXL_20220812_042039111-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/georgenowik.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/PXL_20220812_042039111-400x301.jpg 400w, https:\/\/georgenowik.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/PXL_20220812_042039111-600x452.jpg 600w, https:\/\/georgenowik.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/PXL_20220812_042039111-768x578.jpg 768w, https:\/\/georgenowik.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/PXL_20220812_042039111-800x602.jpg 800w, https:\/\/georgenowik.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/PXL_20220812_042039111-1024x771.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/georgenowik.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/PXL_20220812_042039111-1200x903.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/georgenowik.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/PXL_20220812_042039111-1536x1156.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/georgenowik.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/PXL_20220812_042039111.jpg 1764w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-706\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Super Moon Accurate &#8211; Seattle<\/p><\/div>\n<p>So check this out.\u00a0 This picture was taken from a zoomed out perspective.\u00a0 The moon <em>looked<\/em> to my naked, undressed eyes closer to the image in the zoom.\u00a0 When I say closer, what I mean to say is that it looked <em>larger<\/em> than the zoomed in picture above.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_707\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-707\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-707\" src=\"https:\/\/georgenowik.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/PXL_20220812_050435394-300x226.jpg\" alt=\"Super Moon Accurate - Seattle\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/georgenowik.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/PXL_20220812_050435394-200x151.jpg 200w, https:\/\/georgenowik.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/PXL_20220812_050435394-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/georgenowik.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/PXL_20220812_050435394-400x301.jpg 400w, https:\/\/georgenowik.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/PXL_20220812_050435394-600x452.jpg 600w, https:\/\/georgenowik.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/PXL_20220812_050435394-768x578.jpg 768w, https:\/\/georgenowik.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/PXL_20220812_050435394-800x602.jpg 800w, https:\/\/georgenowik.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/PXL_20220812_050435394-1024x771.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/georgenowik.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/PXL_20220812_050435394-1200x903.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/georgenowik.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/PXL_20220812_050435394-1536x1156.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/georgenowik.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/PXL_20220812_050435394.jpg 1667w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-707\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Super Moon Accurate &#8211; Seattle<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The thing was sure bright though!\u00a0 That part is captured more accurately in the image above.\u00a0 But the actual size of the moon? It still appeared to be huge!<\/p>\n<p>If you ask 95% of the people who were at Kerry Park on Queen Anne in Seattle that night, they would agree.<\/p>\n<h2>Setting the Moon on the Subject<\/h2>\n<p>Finding out that refraction isn&#8217;t the reason for the moon looking large on the horizon kinda broke me today!\u00a0 It was totally not what I was planning on writing about when I began this entry but here we are.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes the swerves, curve balls, and wrenches in our works turn out to be <em>super fascinating.<\/em>\u00a0 It certainly doesn&#8217;t take away from the effervescence and beauty of our lunar satellite.<\/p>\n<p>May this post serve only as a means to learn more about the effusive beauty that is the moon and how our brains perceive it.\u00a0 Given that the trickery taking place serves only to enhance the \u00e6ffecton we have to the face that looks down upon us from afar, really what more is there to know?<\/p>\n<p>Actually.<\/p>\n<p>Did you know that you can fit all the planets in our solar system in the distance between the Earth and the moon?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll leave you with that mind-blowing stat.<\/p>\n<p>Until next week!<\/p>\n<p>-= george =-<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":704,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[210,208,215,209,214,212,211,213,88,117],"class_list":["post-699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-brain-hacks","tag-full-moon","tag-illusion","tag-large-moon","tag-light","tag-mirage","tag-optical-illusion","tag-refraction","tag-sound","tag-trickery"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Large Full Moon Isn&#039;t Large! - George Nowik - Voice Actor<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The moon looks very large to our naked human eye during a full moon. 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