It's even easier to see twice a day with sunrise and sunset!

Yes, I've seen that too, and you can get the sensation.

But it is not nearly as vivid a sensation as the moon against a sharp edge of an alpine slope a couple km across a valley (vs all the way to the horizon).

The difference is on the scale of imagining being traveling in a railway car vs actually being in one. Once I saw it, it wasn't unlike being on a smooth Swiss rail just starting to pull out of the station...

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dylan604 25 days ago | parent [-]

Well, not everyone lives in mountains, so it was a pretty specific example. You could say the same thing about someone living in a city with tall buildings. You can just stand there and watch the moon climbing from behind them. There's a popular spot in my city that is a good distance from downtown so you see the skyline where photographers will line up to capture the moon rise behind downtown. You can tell the newbies by how casual they are about what they are doing vs the experienced ones that know once it starts it's over in a matter of minutes.

	▲	toss1 25 days ago \| parent [-]
		Yes, big city buildings could work very well for that!

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smorgasborg 25 days ago | parent | prev [-]

exactly. that's the only other time you can get that sense. (or moonrise/set)