This reminds me of one night years ago when I was casually sitting out
on my lawn looking out over the open fields to my East with a pair of
11x80 binoculars. I saw a glow over the hill which forms my horizon,
and homed in on it to watch the moonrise. I wasn't expecting much, but
when the limb of the moon rose over the hill, it was outright shocking!
Even with the atmospheric distortion, the just past full moon looked
like a giant, three dimensional golf ball rising up behind the hill!
Hardly a scientific observation, but I've never forgotten it!
Marty