Ordinary Banana

did you always have a good sense of what’s where in the sky? is this increasing it?

no, and yes, definitely. never really thought about it before, but it's increasing my spatial awareness (no pun intended) .. getting a feel for the plane of the solar system, the plane of the milky way itself. the size of things (e.g. this galaxy) visible to the naked eye etc

even looking at that picture makes me feel more that way than looking at the regular sky

first time I’ve thought there’s something like the “unspeakable perception of a ton of topography at once” of mountain ascents

yeah. macrophotography is like that too -- shifts scale the other way, but same effect