"Magnus Nyborg" wrote in message
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"Mick" wrote in message
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Ok..so I took a toilet paper roll and looked at the waning crescent moon
this morning at 4:30 local time. I could see enough
earth shine to complete the disc...there is NO WAY Mars comes even close
at
120 X's magnification to being a comparable
angular diameter in the EP....the math says yes..my eyes say NO! Go
figure...

That's why it is concidered an illusion - a direct comparison (the
magnified
view of Mars in one eye, the non-magnified view of the Moon in the other)
eliminates the illusion.


You seem to pass off "illusion" as nothing more than the natural biological
function of taking a leak...
the fact remains that the moon will always appear larger in the sky than
Mars will appear in the EP...
and with no good explanation....math says yes, eyes and brain says NO.....