jpinard
5516
I don’t know why, but I find this view unsettling.
Matt_W
5517
Potentially it’s because that’s the far side of the moon that you never see from Earth.
Clearly, Roland Emmerich’s Moonfall was a documentary from the future.
Matt_W
5519
DSCOVR orbits at ESL1, directly opposite JWST and about as far away. It’s about 4x further from Earth than the moon. The apparent size of the moon in that image is about 25% larger than its actual size compared to Earth.
It’s eerily reminiscent of old school Elite.
Excuse me but where are the alien bases?
The monoliths and aliens are all underground, if the surface was survivable NASA wouldn’t have needed to fake the moon landings.
Clearly a fake, which doesn’t usually bother me, but for some reason this one does: it messes with my eyes… Maybe because the moon is way too big compared to the Earth… ?
Matt_W
5527
It’s not a fake. The moon is appears about 25% bigger than it should relative to the Earth in that image because it’s also 25% closer. Here’s a comparison of actual Earth vs moon size
Well, I’m no expert, but I’ve seen the size of the Earth on the photographs taken from the moon (Earth rise). If this was taken from (far) beyond the moon, the Earth should be far smaller then it is on this photo. So I seriously doubt this is true.
Edit: the photo in question.
Nope…
In that photo the moon is so big it doesn’t all fit in the picture and the earth is tiny. Perspective matters. A lot.
Apparent scale means approximately dick without knowing the focal length of the lens taking the picture.
Ya’ll need to understand this thing about lens compression
Here’s an example I took. Ya’ll may be familiar with how Mount Rainier looks from Seattle.
But walk 20 miles to the NW, turn around, and zoom in, and LOOK AT THE SIZE OF THAT MOUNTAIN.
The animated version is more fun:
You just need to know distance to the subject.
DSCOVER, the satellite that took these earth/moon pics, orbits about ~1 million miles out from Earth.
Well, luckily I started with ‘I’m not an expert’, because clearly that is the case. My bad, fair enough, cool picture then, and I definitely have a newfound admiration for perspective now!
