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<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=22 BGCOLOR="#330099" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="040000d2erkqrf.gif"> <div> Derby and District Astronomical Society - Aries Magazine</div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=145 BGCOLOR="#333399" TEXT="#080000" background="03fa2c00erkjzj.gif"> <div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Aries Astronomy magazine on line From th"><U>HOME</U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id58.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="One eye on the web ..."><U>One eye on the web ...</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id68.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Resurgent Sun"><U>Resurgent Sun</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id69.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Solar Flares"><U>Solar Flares</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id60.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Sweet meteorites"><U>Sweet meteorites</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id62.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Amazing GRACE"><U>Amazing GRACE</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id61.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Power to the ISS"><U>Power to the ISS</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id64.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Beneath Sunspots"><U>Beneath Sunspots</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id76.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ice on Mars"><U>Ice on Mars</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id77.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Sandcastles"><U>Sandcastles</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id78.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Planet hunting"><U>Planet hunting</U></A></div> <div> <B>Big moon</B></div> <div> <A HREF="id80.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Space power"><U>Space power</U></A></div> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=458 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" background="06a92963.gif"> <div> <B>Aries Astronomy magazine on line- From the Derby and District Astronomical Society</B></div> <div> <IMG SRC="04107040.gif" border=0 width="263" height="4" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> Big Moon Risin' ...</div> <bR> <div> Many of you will have noticed the 'Moon illusion', you know, where the moon seems really large when it is rising. There have been loads of ideas as to why this should be. One idea is that when you se the moon high in the sky there are no familiar landmarks to compare it to and so it looks smaller. Another favourite is that the atmosphere acts as a lens, magnifying the moon. Apparently it is because your brain interprets the sky above your head as being closer than the sky on the horizon and adjusts the size of the image accordingly. Click on the picture below to read more from space.com.</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <A HREF="http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/top5_myths_020903-2.html"target=blank"" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/to"><U><IMG SRC="285b93d0.gif" border=0 width="185" height="61" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </td> </tr></table></body>