looks better than most photos I've tried to take of the moon. what camera do you use?

It's a Canon EOS Rebel XT. I think I used my 70-300mm lens.

Have you come to notice the moon-horizon line illusion? It is so interesting, because it is such a powerful illusion yet you cannot observe it in photographs or in video.

Eh?

While the moon is high in the sky, to the human eye it appears to be small. Yet when one sees it on the horizon line, it appears much larger than normal. This effect is unable to be captured on camera, for unknown reasons.



Not the best site for it, they 'explained' it based on assumptions. But the picture is a good-ish representative!
http://facstaff.uww.edu/mccreadd/fig0.gif



This picture shows how the moon appears for cameras (time lapse)
http://science.nasa.gov/media/media.....attle_med2.jpg

Okay, yeah. I just wasn't sure what you meant. It's because when you're looking UP at the moon, you're looking through less atmosphere. When the moon is closer to the horizon, your line of sigh is going diagonally through the atmosphere, making it "thicker," thereby magnifying anything on the other side. Like the moon.

This level of quality and capability is why I'm watching you. Just thought you should know.