The Moon Illusion and the Height of the Sky

dc.contributor.author	Abhyankar, K. D
dc.date.accessioned	2006-04-13T04:27:36Z
dc.date.available	2006-04-13T04:27:36Z
dc.date.issued	1989-09
dc.identifier.citation	BASI, Vol. 17, No. 3, pp. 55-59	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2248/955
dc.description.abstract	It is shown that the apparently flattened celestial vault can be represented by a geocentric sphere at a height of 3000-4000 km above the surface of the earth. It is also argued that our eye estimates the distance to this 'sky sphere' by its apparent opacity which is a function of the air mass. A hypothesis regarding the physiology of distance vision is proposed	en
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dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.publisher	Astronomical Society of Indian	en
dc.subject	Moon illusion-vision	en
dc.title	The Moon Illusion and the Height of the Sky	en
dc.type	Article	en