Very cool!
You can do this with the naked eye in an area with tall sharp mountains such as the Alps, Rockies, Andes, etc. at times when the moon is low in the sky.
Move to a position where the moon is partially obscured by a mountain across the valley, and watch. It is surprisingly easy how little walking it can take to find a useful alignment. Then just stand and watch. The effect is amazing, even more powerful than watching it drift out of frame the telescope — it really shifts one's perspective to feeling how the earth moving.
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...
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.
Yes, big city buildings could work very well for that!
exactly. that's the only other time you can get that sense. (or moonrise/set)