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  • Baskerville0

    the moon is huge in that picture.

    if you extrapolate the curve of the moon in that photo it looks like this:

    imagine the moon is as small as you see it with the naked eye, saturn would be tiny.

    Quite a few planets are viewable in the night sky with a telecsope. To the naked eye they look like bright starts.

    I was watching the sky at night with patrick moore recently and apparently saturns rings will only be visible for a few more months then they will tilt out of view (so we are seeing the from side on) for a while.

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