On Tue, 24 May 2011 12:32:03 -0400, Warp wrote:

> Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
>> Now in terms of the OP, the size of the moon in the image is physically
>> impossible compared to the size of the sun.  There is no place on the
>> Earth that the moon will photograph as that large without some sort of
>> photo trickery.  None - absolutely NONE.
> 
>   As I said in my post, it's perfectly possible to make a photo of the
> Moon so that it looks enormous compared to the details on the ground.
> Just use a really strong zoom.

There would be artifacts, stretching, or *something* that made it obvious 
it was faked using optics.

>   Of course to get the ground details and the Moon on the same photo
>   with
> such a strong zoom the Moon has to be very close to the horizon, and the
> ground details very far away from the photographer. If the Moon is
> higher on the sky then it becomes impossible (because you can zoom
> either to the Moon or to the horizon, not both).
> 
>   And of course if the Sun were visible as well, that would look much
> bigger as well (about the same size as the Moon), for the same reason.

Exactly.

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