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Relative Sizes in Photographs Can Be Deceiving

I often see photographs that appear to show objects with different size relationships than we usually see. In Figure 1, for example, we see the Moon as nearly the same size as the sailboat. This happened because the sailboat is some distance from the camera and its angular extent is comparable to that of the Moon. Continue reading

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