Hey, bowerbird,

What you describe is a well-known psychological phenomenon known, inter
alia, as the "moon illusion."

Scientific American had an article about it many years ago.

Richard

<<<<<<speaking of understanding,
can anyone explain the phenomenon
of the moon looking huge when
right behind some looming object?

it happened to me tonight,
caught the moon and it was
huge among the wilshire corridor,
so i followed it out to the pacific,
where it shrank to normal size
as it set against the ocean's horizon
(covington visual, bottom-half-full,
nice and fuzzy, it dropped very fast...)

-bowerbird>>>>>>