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Originally Posted by LobsterBoy
I always thought the moon and sun looked bigger when they are near the horizon, but figured it was due to the refraction of light (angle of light, curvature of the earth, density of the atmosphere etc.)
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It's an optical illusion, they are the same size as they are at zenith (or if anything, smaller, since they are 1 earth radius father away at sunrise/sunset).
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