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From: debray@sbcs.UUCP (Saumya Debray)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: How vast moon tonight?
Message-ID: <517@sbcs.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 26-Oct-83 20:13:35 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 26 20:13:35 1983
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It's due to the fact that rays of light from the moon are refracted
through a larger angle when the rays are incident obliquely (when the
moon is near the horizon) than when the rays are incident normally
(when the moon is overhead) on the earth's atmosphere.