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[–] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I don't think that's all. A friend and I spent half an hour debating whether an object was the moon or a huge billboard, because it was aligned with a building on the horizon. But I took a picture and it wasn't nearly big enough to span the roof of the building we were looking at.

[–] Ziglin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So that would be an argument for the focal length of the cameras being relevant I thimk? That seems rather plausible.