Re: [Phys-L] Where is the sky?

[Bill Nettles <bnettles@uu.edu>]

It's larger than Venus. Sorry. I didn't restate the context.

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> But the rising and setting moon does not have a larger angular size.
>
> Alex. F. Burr
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> In a message dated 8/23/2013 1:14:34 P.M. Mountain Daylight Time,
> bnettles@uu.edu writes:
>
> I  haven't done it, but I expect that the spectral measurement of moonlight
> from  a rising and setting moon will be much "redder" than the overhead
> moon, but  the larger angular size causes the light to be coming through a
> more diffuse  path and so the redness isn't as  pronounced
>
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