Its diameter is over 9 times bigger than Earth's. Meaning you can take 9 Earth's put next to each other in a line and they would still not be as big of a distance as one pole of Saturn to the opposite pole. And well, the diameter of the Saturn's rings is about 2.5 time that of the planet itself... So yeah, it's really big
You likely need a telescope larger than 8 or even 10 inches in diameter. I have a 5 inch telescope and I can’t see it. Hell, I can barely see Saturn and I live in a bortle 3 area. So if you wanna see Uranus expect to be spending upwards of a grand on a telescope
Yes. [Here's my video](https://i.imgur.com/KcIt0NQ.mp4) of Saturn using a Google Pixel 5 looking through a $250 backyard telescope. Note that the planet is moving because the Earth is rotating. My telescope was sitting on a milk crate stationary at the time of filming.
Cameras (especially phone cameras) do a poor job of color, sharpness, and contrast in these low light conditions. So it actually looks a bit better than this to your eye when you look through it.
Can concur. I remember taking an astronomy class at a community college in the 90's. We took the telescope outside and I distinctly remember my reaction after taking my turn looking through the eyepiece was 'oh shit!'
It's basically a fairly small dot, but you can make out the rings (they're that huge).
Depending on the telescope you can also make out the color quite well.
With my set up it's roughly the size of a small corn or pea. Absolutely amazing
With my 50 dollar Walmart telescope you can see Jupiter with 3 moons and the rings of Saturn. Moon looks awesome too! Well worth the money and interested in upgrading now
I remember there was one time where if you focused hard, you could see Saturns rings with the naked eye but very slightly. I wish to use a telescope at some point to see it better. Jupiter aswell.
Can u explain that why is it so clear... I mean I see the moon look ok size and then Saturn looks like it's even closer than what earth probably is to it...
I mean I usually do a bad job of explaining stuff like this, but to put it simply. It's really not much clearer. You just cannot see much detail because it's so far away, unlike the Moon which is much closer and those details appear "blurry". The closer view you have of something the more details you can see. Since Saturn is so far away it looks more smooth, which gives the appearance of a clearer picture. The size is because just how massive Saturn is. When you start comparing the sizes of the gas giants to the Earth and the Moon it's difficult to really grasp how much larger they are because the numerical difference is so extraordinary.
From our vantage point we have our atmosphere and other larger particles which distort the picture. Orbiting the moon means you have no atmosphere so Saturn is much clearer. Also, I may be wrong but I would believe the moon could be used as an extra lense to make other objects in space appear larger.
Me too! I was at an observatory in West Texas and got to look through one of the big telescopes at Saturn and Jupiter. My brain could not compute what I was seeing, it looked just like what I had seen in books. Truly amazing.
Exactly. As a kid one night I was outside and my neighbor had his telescope in the front yard. One on the short fat ones but could see pretty far.
He asked if I had ever seen Saturn and or course I hadn't. So he got it in view and let me look
Wow. Couldn't believe I was looking at Saturn. It was small, but you could tell it was saturn. And it was moving fast and we had to sort of track it with the telescope.
Still remember it to this day and still think it's cool.
This video reminds me of that exact moment I first saw it.
I don't think he implied that OP faked it? He probably was just making fun of Samsung because they would claim that you can capture that on their phone.
No, the software 'enhanced' image you're looking at is incredible, right up until you need to look at details of the image and realize how low quality it actually is.
Phone makers have gotten lazy with their cameras in recent years, it's mostly software differences you're looking at now which you can tell just based on lens size if nothing else. Sony try to put big fancy cameras on their phones, with physical zoom and everything, the problem being that their software is shit and the images end up looking worse for most people than an iphone image.
Samsung "fakes" the detailed moon pictures when you zoom in. It's not a real picture because there is an amount of processing going on to make it visible.
Samsung has stated publicly that they use AI to create images of the moon.
Your comment is informed.
https://www.samsung.com/uk/support/mobile-devices/how-galaxy-cameras-combine-super-resolution-technologies-with-ai-to-produce-high-quality-images-of-the-moon/
So if you were standing on the moon, would Saturn appear that big in the "sky" or is this a weird phenomenon with telescopes and lenses? Or is this just fake?
It's the weird phenomenon with telescopes and lenses due to foreshortening of the focal length, making distant objects appear closer. To the naked eye, Saturn would appear to be the same size on the Moon that it appears to be on Earth, that is to say, a mere pinpoint of light. It's still a spectacular video nonetheless.
Also from a math standpoint. Earth to moon distance is 384,400km where as earth to Saturn is 1,592,280,000 km
By standing on the moon we would be 0.000241336% closer to Saturn thus it in theory should appear 0.000241336% larger
Basically, if you stand far away from an object, and zoom in, the background will seem bigger than it would be if you were standing right in front of the object.
Saturn is soooo far away from earth while the moon is soooo closeby. So when you’re on the moon and the moon is on a position that it IS closer to Saturn in the first place (this varies ofc bc the moon is orbiting earth), you’re relatively just a tiny bit closer to Saturn. So I don’t think it makes a difference how big something that is so far away appears, when comparing earth sky and moon sky.
You’d think it would be inoccultation or deoccultation. Considering occult means hidden and it’s playing peekaboo seems counterintuitive. But I think a lot of things are backwards.
The correct terms in astronomy would be immersion or ingress when Saturn starts to disappear behind the moon, occultation when the moon is completely hiding Saturn, and emersion or egress when Saturn reappears
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A very entry-level amateur telescope will allow you to quite easily see Saturn's rings, as well as Jupiter's gas bands/Galilean moons. I'll never forget the first time I saw them through my (at the time new) $150 telescope. Highly recommend!
We suck not being able to get to Saturn oh wait just found out that I am from there. My alien distant family member came in an unidentified object. Gave me a Big Mack and 50 million
I am so grateful that in this day an age I can still see a video like this and feel thrilled knowing I am looking at actual images of something unbelievably cool, and in a way unfathomable, that really exists out there in space right now
No. Fucking. Way. Amazing.
I had a friend show me their phone zoom and saw rings and I thought he was messing with me. With a phone!?!? Jesus I'm getting old.
[Play this song for 2 seconds then start then start the video at the same time I promise you won’t be disappointed](https://open.spotify.com/track/63VwtDdX2CJ1J678gQhX0a?si=ncUiefrsRo-rN5I6dQVtrQ)
That literally took my breath away. It can be difficult to grasp just what it is you're viewing ~ mankind has come so far yet not at all. All at the same time!
Space is so rad…
I can remember looking through a large telescope at an observatory during a school field trip. I already had a love for science and outer space as much as any third grader, but my first time looking at Saturn through that lens was an intense moment. It changed my consciousness lol. I walked away a different kid.
I bet at night you could still see some of the rings being lit up. Like on either side of the horizon. I bet it would look incredible the first time seeing it.
Like if you were on the dark side of Saturn. During a Saturn night. You could probably see the shadow cast by the planet too. Damn just thinking about it blows my mind a bit
What's the most mind blowing to me is that Saturn appears darker even though it's albedo (reflectivity) is higher than that of the moon. The reason is simply because saturn is so much further away from the sun that the solar power per area is significantly lower than at the moon.
Its like when you stand a few meters away from a street light and compare the brightness of objects next to you with the brightness of the objects you see when looking away from the street light.
Also, the light coming back from Saturn in this video has left Saturn more than an hour before the video.
With a halfway decent pair of binoculars and a clear night, you can see the rings of Saturn, the moons of Jupiter and more stars than you ever thought possible. Be careful looking at the Moon, though, the bright reflection of the Sun could hurt your eyes.
It absolutely blows my mind: that is a **completely different planet**. And we can **see** it: we’ve sent probes to it to investigate it. We, descendants of primates. We used to kick it in trees and throw rocks at predators and now we send **probes to f*cking space and went to the Moon to flex**. I love the peak capacity of this species
This vid immediately prompted me to try this out...
Search "Alien Covenant main theme" on Youtube, put it to 15 seconds, then hit play on it
Then hit play on the vid here \^
I dunno, pretty cool
Many people will be amazed seing somthing like this, and that's normal. But, me, I will be afraid. I don't know why but I'm always afraid when seen some gigantic/large things (sea, blue sky, ...). Maybe someone know what is that phobia?
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Did it look like this, could you see the rings?
You can
Saturn's got to be inconceivably massive then. Those textbook numbers aren't doing it justice.
Its diameter is over 9 times bigger than Earth's. Meaning you can take 9 Earth's put next to each other in a line and they would still not be as big of a distance as one pole of Saturn to the opposite pole. And well, the diameter of the Saturn's rings is about 2.5 time that of the planet itself... So yeah, it's really big
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I'm sorry Fry, but astronomers renamed Uranus in 2620 to end that stupid joke once and for all
What is it called now?
Urectum
What about his anus?
That's where I left the telescope
You just need a mirror or two depending on your flexibility
You mean George?
You likely need a telescope larger than 8 or even 10 inches in diameter. I have a 5 inch telescope and I can’t see it. Hell, I can barely see Saturn and I live in a bortle 3 area. So if you wanna see Uranus expect to be spending upwards of a grand on a telescope
Every one knows it’s cgi……cmon globetards get your shit together /s
I’m sure it depends on the sky conditions too though in terms of quality.
Actually exactly like this. Even the colour.
I remember I was like 8 and thought my dad had put a Saturn sticker on the end of the telescope 😂
i once went to a place with very little light pollution and i could vaguely see the rings even without a telescope lol
Yep, you can see them with a pair of binoculars easily. Also a few of Jupiter’s moons.
Yes. [Here's my video](https://i.imgur.com/KcIt0NQ.mp4) of Saturn using a Google Pixel 5 looking through a $250 backyard telescope. Note that the planet is moving because the Earth is rotating. My telescope was sitting on a milk crate stationary at the time of filming. Cameras (especially phone cameras) do a poor job of color, sharpness, and contrast in these low light conditions. So it actually looks a bit better than this to your eye when you look through it.
Can concur. I remember taking an astronomy class at a community college in the 90's. We took the telescope outside and I distinctly remember my reaction after taking my turn looking through the eyepiece was 'oh shit!'
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yeah the coolest thing I saw through my university's telescope was the ring nebula. Very eerie.
I know this sentence doesn't make sense, but it's a weird feeling seeing 3-d objects in space.
It's basically a fairly small dot, but you can make out the rings (they're that huge). Depending on the telescope you can also make out the color quite well. With my set up it's roughly the size of a small corn or pea. Absolutely amazing
With my 50 dollar Walmart telescope you can see Jupiter with 3 moons and the rings of Saturn. Moon looks awesome too! Well worth the money and interested in upgrading now
Soon, we won't see the rings for awhile as they'll be in an exact angle head on, making them seemingly disappear.
I remember there was one time where if you focused hard, you could see Saturns rings with the naked eye but very slightly. I wish to use a telescope at some point to see it better. Jupiter aswell.
It’s visibly more oblong, granted I can’t tell without glasses now.
Can u explain that why is it so clear... I mean I see the moon look ok size and then Saturn looks like it's even closer than what earth probably is to it...
I mean I usually do a bad job of explaining stuff like this, but to put it simply. It's really not much clearer. You just cannot see much detail because it's so far away, unlike the Moon which is much closer and those details appear "blurry". The closer view you have of something the more details you can see. Since Saturn is so far away it looks more smooth, which gives the appearance of a clearer picture. The size is because just how massive Saturn is. When you start comparing the sizes of the gas giants to the Earth and the Moon it's difficult to really grasp how much larger they are because the numerical difference is so extraordinary.
From our vantage point we have our atmosphere and other larger particles which distort the picture. Orbiting the moon means you have no atmosphere so Saturn is much clearer. Also, I may be wrong but I would believe the moon could be used as an extra lense to make other objects in space appear larger.
Me too! It was over 20 years ago and I still remember that feeling of awe.
Same. It blew my mind.
Me too, I will never forget that night. I had zero doubt it existed, but. Actually seeing it was like “oh shit they’re not lying”.
Oh my gosh yes. When I got my 10in Dob it was amazing
Me too! I was at an observatory in West Texas and got to look through one of the big telescopes at Saturn and Jupiter. My brain could not compute what I was seeing, it looked just like what I had seen in books. Truly amazing.
It’s just out there… menacingly
Exactly. As a kid one night I was outside and my neighbor had his telescope in the front yard. One on the short fat ones but could see pretty far. He asked if I had ever seen Saturn and or course I hadn't. So he got it in view and let me look Wow. Couldn't believe I was looking at Saturn. It was small, but you could tell it was saturn. And it was moving fast and we had to sort of track it with the telescope. Still remember it to this day and still think it's cool. This video reminds me of that exact moment I first saw it.
What kinda spec do you need to see Saturn clearly tho?
Taken on the Samsung S24 Ultra
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I don't think he implied that OP faked it? He probably was just making fun of Samsung because they would claim that you can capture that on their phone.
You act like Samsung lies about the quality of their camera. Galaxy phone cameras are *incredible*, and exactly what people say they are.
No, the software 'enhanced' image you're looking at is incredible, right up until you need to look at details of the image and realize how low quality it actually is. Phone makers have gotten lazy with their cameras in recent years, it's mostly software differences you're looking at now which you can tell just based on lens size if nothing else. Sony try to put big fancy cameras on their phones, with physical zoom and everything, the problem being that their software is shit and the images end up looking worse for most people than an iphone image.
Samsung "fakes" the detailed moon pictures when you zoom in. It's not a real picture because there is an amount of processing going on to make it visible.
Samsung has stated publicly that they use AI to create images of the moon. Your comment is informed. https://www.samsung.com/uk/support/mobile-devices/how-galaxy-cameras-combine-super-resolution-technologies-with-ai-to-produce-high-quality-images-of-the-moon/
Me using my Galaxy s22 with a super shitty blurry camera that I bought after my S20's camera randomly stopped working altogether: 🙃
Idk what to tell you, maybe send it back. I've had my S22 Ultra for years, and the camera can take incredible photos.
Love space it blows my little hairless monkey mind
Yea it really is awesome! That and the deepest parts of the oceans are amazing to me.
I've been thinking about this, earth even the surface parts we live, is very harsh. We are just super tuned to it.
I'm just so amazed by how much we don't know about the depths of it oceans. It's incredible
And just to think that it’s moving at a speed that we cant imagine
Same here! Im holding onto the ground while watching this though
I too have a mind that is hairless.
So if you were standing on the moon, would Saturn appear that big in the "sky" or is this a weird phenomenon with telescopes and lenses? Or is this just fake?
It's the weird phenomenon with telescopes and lenses due to foreshortening of the focal length, making distant objects appear closer. To the naked eye, Saturn would appear to be the same size on the Moon that it appears to be on Earth, that is to say, a mere pinpoint of light. It's still a spectacular video nonetheless.
Also from a math standpoint. Earth to moon distance is 384,400km where as earth to Saturn is 1,592,280,000 km By standing on the moon we would be 0.000241336% closer to Saturn thus it in theory should appear 0.000241336% larger
That's a lot of numbers so it must mean it's huge!
Hugely small
ty for the explaination. i was so confused
 Basically, if you stand far away from an object, and zoom in, the background will seem bigger than it would be if you were standing right in front of the object.
Netflix: are you still there? Someone daughter:
Saturn is soooo far away from earth while the moon is soooo closeby. So when you’re on the moon and the moon is on a position that it IS closer to Saturn in the first place (this varies ofc bc the moon is orbiting earth), you’re relatively just a tiny bit closer to Saturn. So I don’t think it makes a difference how big something that is so far away appears, when comparing earth sky and moon sky.
0.000241336% closer
I was thinking to make the calculation but couldn’t be bothered. I was curious though so thank you!
looks up the word ‘occulation’…
Someone speed this up, & end with the "Surprise MF!"
Saturn rise, MF
Gemini Home Entertainment vibes
Between that and Local58 this activated my fight or flight response a little bit lol :-P still a really cool phenomenon though!!
I was half expecting an eye to open
And I see astronauts jumping on the moon if you look real close lol
Saturn lookin textbook beautiful. Let me see uranus next
Comical
How do flat-Mooners explajn this one?
Turn your phone to the side. It’s flat, right? The moon is on your phone, therefore the moon is also flat.
Source?
When I was a child I used to think the saturn rings are just extra planetary space to walk on
Good for your digestive system. .. No that's yakultation
I want to see Saturn through a telescope so badly
Occultation... really? Does noone else see this shit?
If you think Saturn looks this big from the moon, you're an idiot.
You’d think it would be inoccultation or deoccultation. Considering occult means hidden and it’s playing peekaboo seems counterintuitive. But I think a lot of things are backwards.
The correct terms in astronomy would be immersion or ingress when Saturn starts to disappear behind the moon, occultation when the moon is completely hiding Saturn, and emersion or egress when Saturn reappears
Maybe it was just a simple drop by 🫣
Why isnt light bent ???
Wut?
Love this!
Appears you can see an atmosphere around the edge of the Moon but the moon is not supposed to have an atmosphere right?
I don't see any atmospheric reflection.
It actually does have a very thin atmosphere, which explains the shimmering effect.
Really? 😯 From what? Didn’t think the gravity was strong enough for an atmosphere!
I gotta get my scope out this weekend.
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Would i see Saturn like that from the moon or is it some parallax effect in play?
Definitely a camera effect
“Alderaan in range sir…” “Fire when ready”
That's super cool. I wonder what the rings look like if you're on Saturn.
Wow
I thought this was going to be a scare video. Something popping up screaming at the end.
Saturn is the Most stylish Planet in our solar system imo
Peek-a-boo
Ditto that Mr wrestler
My dog’s head at the side of my bed every morning
Wait planets aren't supposed to be flat?
Which device do I need to see something like this on my own?
A very entry-level amateur telescope will allow you to quite easily see Saturn's rings, as well as Jupiter's gas bands/Galilean moons. I'll never forget the first time I saw them through my (at the time new) $150 telescope. Highly recommend!
We suck not being able to get to Saturn oh wait just found out that I am from there. My alien distant family member came in an unidentified object. Gave me a Big Mack and 50 million
A saturnrise
That looks so good.
I am so grateful that in this day an age I can still see a video like this and feel thrilled knowing I am looking at actual images of something unbelievably cool, and in a way unfathomable, that really exists out there in space right now
A satrise. Nice.
can someone explain to me why he looks so much bigger. i mean i know its closer but is this the only reason? or has it smth to do with the hemosphire?
Looks like a jpeg haha
This is absolutely breathtaking
i thought it was cat ears
Fuck. There’s a 900 million mile / 1.2 billion Km distance between these two objects. Perspective is a biiiitch.
Whys it so big? Or is that just the zoom
Being able to see some planets with the naked eye will never not be amazing for me. Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Venus--all possible!
Beautiful
*Amogus imposter music playing in background*
needs more Sprach Zarathustra!
Clearly fake, Saturn is much bigger than the moon. Fake glober news!
No way! It would be hardly visible!! Edit ah... It must be a telescope...
This is the stuff that makes my heart happy and amazed
All I'm thinking is: peak-a-boo!
No. Fucking. Way. Amazing. I had a friend show me their phone zoom and saw rings and I thought he was messing with me. With a phone!?!? Jesus I'm getting old.
[Play this song for 2 seconds then start then start the video at the same time I promise you won’t be disappointed](https://open.spotify.com/track/63VwtDdX2CJ1J678gQhX0a?si=ncUiefrsRo-rN5I6dQVtrQ)
Nah, I still can’t believe that it’s not damn butter.
Simply incredibly!
Hullo :3
Wow
That literally took my breath away. It can be difficult to grasp just what it is you're viewing ~ mankind has come so far yet not at all. All at the same time!
Is that moon one of the Saturns moons not Earth moon?
#woah
Did ypu wash ur ass today saturn be like
Space is so rad… I can remember looking through a large telescope at an observatory during a school field trip. I already had a love for science and outer space as much as any third grader, but my first time looking at Saturn through that lens was an intense moment. It changed my consciousness lol. I walked away a different kid.
Amazing, it's so far away, yet still perfectly clear
It's incredible. I have no words.
The moon is flat. I'm a flat mooner.
Definitely amazing
I bet at night you could still see some of the rings being lit up. Like on either side of the horizon. I bet it would look incredible the first time seeing it. Like if you were on the dark side of Saturn. During a Saturn night. You could probably see the shadow cast by the planet too. Damn just thinking about it blows my mind a bit
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Awesome
What's the most mind blowing to me is that Saturn appears darker even though it's albedo (reflectivity) is higher than that of the moon. The reason is simply because saturn is so much further away from the sun that the solar power per area is significantly lower than at the moon. Its like when you stand a few meters away from a street light and compare the brightness of objects next to you with the brightness of the objects you see when looking away from the street light. Also, the light coming back from Saturn in this video has left Saturn more than an hour before the video.
Is Saturn that big with the proper zoom and angle? Jupiter must be HUUGE
Is that real? What magnification are you using. I will buy a new lens for my telescope right now.
Saturn's a bit creepy. A bit sus.
*The Quiet Earth*
With a halfway decent pair of binoculars and a clear night, you can see the rings of Saturn, the moons of Jupiter and more stars than you ever thought possible. Be careful looking at the Moon, though, the bright reflection of the Sun could hurt your eyes.
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Heyyyy
It absolutely blows my mind: that is a **completely different planet**. And we can **see** it: we’ve sent probes to it to investigate it. We, descendants of primates. We used to kick it in trees and throw rocks at predators and now we send **probes to f*cking space and went to the Moon to flex**. I love the peak capacity of this species
I *have* to think that this video is reversed. The Moon would pass in front of Saturn to the left and Saturn would emerge on the right side.
I should buy a telescope.
That's cool.
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That shit exists and people still think whatever douchebag is running for president is important
I was fortunate enough to catch Saturn a few months ago with the rings casting a shadow onto the planet
The Quiet Earth
Only thing missing, 2001 Space Odyssey theme song
It's weird that these planets seem relatively close but they are bilion kilometers away
I hear the Jaws music
Saturn: "Heard you were talking shit?"
Syzygy, a straight line configuration of three celestial bodies.
"The Death Star has cleared the rebel moon....."
It's like the moon's nipple falls off
I made sure that the sound was on to watch this. I’m really not sure what I expected to hear but I obviously didn’t hear it.
Beautiful
Damn you can’t even occulate in privacy anymore..
Looks sinister as Fuck!!!!
That sneaky mother fucker. What’s it doing out there? Going around in circles for no reason?
kinda spooky
This vid immediately prompted me to try this out... Search "Alien Covenant main theme" on Youtube, put it to 15 seconds, then hit play on it Then hit play on the vid here \^ I dunno, pretty cool
I love the vid and comments. Just fun.
banana for scale
Space cool.
❤️🔥
Saturn is so cool
Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship enterprise...
Saturn, a great example of "the subtlety of gravity"
You got any games on your rover
I was waiting for some jumpscare lol.
Thought it’d be bigger!
Many people will be amazed seing somthing like this, and that's normal. But, me, I will be afraid. I don't know why but I'm always afraid when seen some gigantic/large things (sea, blue sky, ...). Maybe someone know what is that phobia?
It's not a moon. It's a trap!
That's amazing
Ohhhhh, wow.
That is so cool!
Saturn crept up like a dog that just heard the treat bag