From: cpd@cat.pan.net   
      
   ""Chris ®""  wrote in message   
   news:16939-4B647B81-238@storefull-3251.bay.webtv.net...   
   > >For that matter, the lens size of the   
   >>camera makes a difference too... if we   
   >>assume a telephoto lens, the moon   
   >>appears larger against a foreground object   
   >>than with a wide-angle lens.   
   >   
   > The moon in the evening sky on Caprica was a good 20 times the size as   
   > our moon and it filled half the sky. I don't think there is any way it   
   > can physically NOT have a much more significant gravitational force upon   
   > Caprica itself.   
      
   In the movie "E.T.", the scene with the bicycle against the moon.  Think of   
   recreating that scene using a telephoto lens from very far away.  Anything   
   can be made to appear tiny against the moon from the right distance with the   
   right telephoto lens.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)