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Why is it that objects appear smaller in celestia than as the naked eye sees it?

For example, I remember seeing the moon right next to the Pleiades, and it appeared bigger than that group of stars. Yet, when I looked at it in celestia, it appeared smaller. Why is that?

Please read the FAQ, in particular, item #12 under Features.

Okay, thank you.

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap050414.html

shows the Moon next to the Pleiades.
Celestia's display of this event (at about 23:45 UTC on April 11, 2005) seems to be reasonably accurate.

cel://SyncOrbit/Sol:Earth/2005-04-11T23 ... rc=0&ver=3

(This is a v1.6 url)

p.s. I've corrected the URL to correspond to the location of the photographer in Carranza, NJ.