The Moon On Horizon Illusion 🌕 w/ Neil deGrasse Tyson

[Arjun-rcjy]

Neil is the kinda guy that looks at the Moon upside down

[chazwx]

My 6th grade science instructor taught us this, including the looking through our legs. He was a great teacher.

[sixbartend]

Flat earther wouldn’t test this out to save their lives

[PhoticSneezeOne]

The wild thing is that it seems to also magnify the details on the moon. I can see the structures and craters better! Mind blowing

[joecolubriale]

Since school i was taught something different from what he is saying, so i look it up. Quote "As the moon rises or sets,  its light travels through a thicker layer of earth's atmosphere near the horizon. This denser atmosphere can bend the moon's light slightly, making it appear larger than it really is".

[DESTSO]

I studied visual arts and one trick we used to make sure proportion was not distorted was to turn the "drawing " upside down

[JChan-ruhf]

I’ve never used the word juxtaposed and my whole life. I’ll start tomorrow.

[zlotywest]

"Go ahead and do that" always sounds like he wanna trick us, but every time its not a trick but the truth. 😂 Love this guy so much

[tirrelljoyner]

My neighbor was laughing at me the other day when i was doing this. When I explained what I was doing he tried it. We laughed for over an hour. Men are so simple to entertain.

[jaydeabab]

One of my favorite things I learned in perception psychology in undergrad

[Chrissy-Art]

So to see the rising full moon in its true form you have to moon people while looking at it? Genius 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[victorsimmons]

WOW the brilliance you have to have to have people across the world looking backwards through their legs saying you know what he's right 🤣🤣🤣🤣🖤💛🖤💛

[ghosttownsentinel]

Mr Tyson forgot to mention the thick layering of atmosphere at the horizon refracts the moon to create the illusion also. The same phenomenon makes the sun look flatter at sunset. In a desert with no trees or other objects for reference of scale, the moon still looks larger as it rises above the horizon.

[nekimi__]

I had this weird dream in China once, where I laid in a stone bench outside my grandma’s house at night. I blinked while looking at the moon and when I opened my eyes again the moon was deadass covering the whole sky, I could see every crater, and it was so bright, I could even see the surrounding buildings be affected by the moon’s gravity

[lisderoa]

There is a much easier trick: look at the moon through a paper tube, like the center of toilet paper. It will inmediately "shrink" when you don't see the objects surrounding it.
The explanation that I was taught is that people feel the sky vault as much lower than a real sphere. Our brain believes that the moon is nearer when it's high in the sky and therefore you see it smaller. When near the horizon your brain feels that the moon is further away, but it sees it of the same size, so it must be bigger.

[gardengaga]

I know exactly what you are talking about. My husband and I were on a hill in San Francisco and the moon began to rise across the bay behind the hills of Oakland. That moon looked bigger than the city of Oakland. We always say that it was our moon!

[grimreeper]

Imagine going outside on a full moon, and everyone outside is giving the full moon a full moon for a better look 😂😂😂

[keithwilliams]

And theres the lensing effect of the atmosphere is greater at the horizon.

[orealz]

He really just said the moon is gas lighting us

[JuisyCa]

This makes perfect sense and I am glad he explained. Because sometimes I see the moon as it’s rising, and it looks HUGE! But when I take a picture of it, it is much smaller than what I am experiencing