Why visual size of the Earth is not 3,6 times bigger on some of the Apollo footage videos and photos taken from the Moon surface?

Question

Edit title – 3,6 times bigger than visual of the Moon we see here on the Earth surface?

In: Mathematics

Answer 1

3.6 times larger than what? And why should it be 3.6 times larger? How large something appears in a photograph depends on the distance to the object and the focal length. Change the focal length, get a different size – this is the principle behind zoom.