"Odysseus" wrote in message
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"Hagar" wrote:

[...] riding to work on Friday morning I saw the Moon setting in the
west,
about 6:30am and it was quite a sight; it appeared three times its
normal
size and had a dark-reddish tint, almost as one would expect Mars to
appear,
at close range. I am sure the amplification effect was caused by
atmospheric
lensing.

If by "amplification" you mean its great apparent size, that's not due
to the atmosphere, but to a well-known perceptual illusion. Images of an
object near the horizon actually get compressed by atmospheric
refraction, quite the opposite of what our visual sense tells us.

--
Odysseus

OK, one more time: The ****ing Moon looked 2.5 times its normal size. It
was also bathed in a burnt orange like color. No, it is not an illusion,
because I have watched the Sun set in the Pacific ocean, displaying
identical traits. The additional "ether" one has to look through when
eyeing a visual path parallel to the Earth's surface must act like a lens,
making the Sun and the Moon appear larger, as they approach the horizon.

So, you can either explain in detail the mystery of your "well-known
perceptual illusion", or shut up, because it sounds like gibberish to me.