In some pictures...the moon looks REALLY BIG, and when I see it its not so big ?

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Is there places on the Earth that the moon gets this big, for example, like this pic?

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0812/LickMoonrise_baldridge_c800.jpg
 
The Moon is the same size as seen from anywhere on Earth. Photographers often use long telephoto lenses to make the Moon appear larger than foreground objects.
 
i have yet to see it that big, but their answers seem kind of... wrong. chances are the camera can effect the size of the moon, but i've witnessed the moon appearing to be a greater size.

i live in a town and the moon looks relatively normal... i went to another town which is a higher elevation and the moon looks a lot bigger!
this normally happens during the harvest moon season though; around october. it normally has an orange glow and appears much larger...
this is where the idea of charlie brown's "the great pumpkin in the sky" comes from during halloween.
 
What the photographer did (to put it simply) is that the object (looks like an observatory) is probably on the order of a few miles away from the photographer. Waited for the moon to rise and got that picture, so the moon and the horizon (building on the horizon) are both magnified by the telephoto lense that was mentioned.
 
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