"Even a man who is pure at heart
"And says his prayers by night
"May become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms
"And the autumn moon is bright."
(-- Maria Ouspenskaya as the old gypsy in "The Wolf Man," 1941)

I've seen this illusion quite a few times, first when I was about 17, and this enormous yellowish moon was looming over the stadium where I was attending a high school football game. Scary stuff.

What if our moon always looked like that? That would mean it was a lot closer than 250K miles, and we'd have tides that would make the Bay of Fundy's look like a splash in the bathtub.
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-- Paul W. (The Benzadmiral)
('03 Buick Park Avenue, charcoal/cream)
Formerly:
'97 C230, smoke silver/parchment; '86 420SEL, anthracite/light grey; '84 280CE (W123), dark blue/palomino