Joerg Baumgartner:
> Doesn't. Or at least, to be that far-far away, you'll have to leave the=
> Middle World entirely.
> In the real world, we experience both sun and moon as subjectively larg=
er
> when close to the horizon. However, if we have a disk which covers the
> moon (or the sun, which by a very strange fluke appears to be the same
> size) in its entirety at is highest point, held at arms length, we will=
> find that it does equally so when on the horizon.
You can't apply those real-world effects to Glorantha. Earth's Sun alway=
s
seems to cover the same angle wherever it is in the sky because it's at a=
great distance, over twenty thousand times as far away as the radius of t=
he
Earth. IF Earth's optical rules applied in Glorantha, the Red Moon would=
indeed look smaller as you got further away.
Our Sun's apparent size does vary slightly according to where Earth is in=
its orbit. You can't normally detect this with the naked eye, but 'annular' eclipses occur at times when the apparent size of the Sun is at=
its largest and the Moon does not cover it completely.
Andrew
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