... tree covered with leaves, and thought: if those leaves were stars, how many trees ... there are 1000 leaves per tree, and I can see about ten trees straight back as I ...
... looking through your right eye it is lined up with some distant object like a tree ... See how it no longer lines up with the tree? ... That's because the angle formed by your eye, your thumb and the tree has changed. ...
... stars (just like you can imagine that a tree looks like it is passing you when you ... that beyond your thumb is some distant object, like a tree seen through a window ... Close your left eye and note where your thumb is with respect to that tree. ...
... The most common misconception is that it is because you are unconsciously comparing the Moon to foreground objects like trees and houses, or even the horizon itself, and that makes the Moon look bigger than when it is all alone in the sky. ...
... Just as nearby trees appear to move past you faster than farther away trees when you are in a car, nearby stars would appear to move more quickly as you magically fly around to the "back side" of Orion. ...
... Closer objects appear to shift more; this is why nearby trees seem to fly by when you are driving a car, but distant trees appear to pass you more slowly. ...
... of UFO reports that turn out to be sightings of the planet Venus are an indicator of this; if more people were used to seeing it, then its uncanny brilliance looming low through the trees wouldn't be mistaken so often for a spacecraft following your car ...