Will the real moon please stand up?

[OnePath]

Image from the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite around 761,000 miles from the lunar surface.
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddar...nasa-camera-shows-moon-crossing-face-of-earth

Image from the Chang'e 5-T1 craft around 8,000 miles from the lunar surface.
Chinese Chang'e Craft Loops the Moon

Which are we supposed to believe?

 

[JohnEmmett]

fix your links…

 

[OnePath]

fix your links…

They seem to be working fine for me.

 

[JohnEmmett]

They seem to be working fine for me.

the forum is against me…

 

[Lost4words]

Image from the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite around 761,000 miles from the lunar surface.
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddar...nasa-camera-shows-moon-crossing-face-of-earth

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Image from the Chang'e 5-T1 craft around 8,000 miles from the lunar surface.
Chinese Chang'e Craft Loops the Moon

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Which are we supposed to believe?

Both as different perspectives!

 

[OnePath]

the forum is against me…

I hope it's fixed now. I was seeing them, not sure why the issue.

 

[JohnEmmett]

Which are we supposed to believe?

Perspective is a strange thing

 

[OnePath]

Both as different perspectives!

You mean one from behind the moon and the other from behind the moon?

 

[JohnEmmett]

You mean one from behind the moon and the other from behind the moon?

I think one of those is a photo manipulation

 

[OnePath]

Perspective is a strange thing

If you click on the link for the top one, you'll see it's a still of a NASA animation supposedly showing the moon transversing the earth while in orbit. It's not a matter of perspective.

 

[JohnEmmett]

It's not a matter of perspective.

Right

just saying…

 

[OnePath]

The full NASA animation for the first pic. What they claim to be a successive collection of still photos.

 

[JohnEmmett]

What they claim to be a successive collection of still photos.

perspective…

 

[essentialsaltes]

Objects that are farther away from you look smaller. News at 11.

The earth-moon distance is (very) roughly 240,000 miles

Image from the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite around 761,000 miles from the lunar surface.

So the earth is roughly a million miles away, 33% farther away from the camera than the moon.

Image from the Chang'e 5-T1 craft around 8,000 miles from the lunar surface.

So the earth is roughly 248,000 miles away, 31 times farther away from the camera than the moon.

 

[Lost4words]

The full NASA animation for the first pic. What they claim to be a successive collection of still photos.

Perspective

 

[Sunshinee777]

Image from the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite around 761,000 miles from the lunar surface.
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddar...nasa-camera-shows-moon-crossing-face-of-earth

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Image from the Chang'e 5-T1 craft around 8,000 miles from the lunar surface.
Chinese Chang'e Craft Loops the Moon

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Which are we supposed to believe?

I know artists who can draw more believable pictures of earth. Have you compared all the pictures nasa has provided for the past 50 years? It’s comical. Better than movies.

 

[JohnEmmett]

youtu.be/2-YDMP9VWNE?t=515

Giant UFO Passes Moon

 

[chevyontheriver]

You mean one from behind the moon and the other from behind the moon?

Yup, at different distances behind the moon. Magnification was not specified. That would have cleared it up for you.

 

[chevyontheriver]

Image from the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite around 761,000 miles from the lunar surface.
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddar...nasa-camera-shows-moon-crossing-face-of-earth

View attachment 308571

Image from the Chang'e 5-T1 craft around 8,000 miles from the lunar surface.
Chinese Chang'e Craft Loops the Moon

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Which are we supposed to believe?

Obviously we believe that the sun and the moon are the same size. You can just look and see.

 

[JohnEmmett]

Obviously we believe that the sun and the moon are the same size. You can just look and see.

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