... what are they standing on? How come earth and moon are of relatively equal size from their vantage point? Does such a point exist?
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OK, the moon has almost circled the earth entirely and no one has pointed this out yet, so I guess it's up to me.
The moon and sun are even more different in relative size than the moon and earth. But if you stand about an earth orbit minus earth radius away from the sun and a moon orbit minus earth radius away from the moon, their apparent size is within a range that includes them looking exactly the same size (since both the earth's and moon's orbits are slightly elliptical, so it varies a bit with either one potentially looking bigger than the others).
There must be. When you’re standing on the moon, it goes on as far as the eye can see, and the Earth is a ball in the sky. The moon is 27% of the diameter of the earth, so o you need to be at a spot where the Earth is 3.7 (=1/0.27) times further away from you than the moon. That’s 50,789 miles above the moon’s surface, 188,110 miles above Earth.
But the percieved size of an object doesn't change linearly. The points would still exist though just at a different place.
Maybe they're not standing on anything, just floating in space?