Eli5 how people are able to take pictures of the moon and it looks freaking huge.
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Imagine taking a picture of a skyscraper next to the moon. If you’re near the skyscraper, it’ll obviously appear a lot larger than the moon. You can drive away and then zoom in with a camera to make the skyscraper look as if you’re still near to it.
If the moon is also in the image, it’ll appear to enlarge with the zoom on the camera, but it won’t appear to shrink as you drive away. It’ll only get bigger, and it’ll look unusually large if there’s an object to compare it to.
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