Earth and Moon seen from Saturn

[skysurfer]

A great image of our Earth from Saturn.

http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/styles/946xvariable_height/public/20130722_annotated_earth-moon_from_saturn_1920x1080.jpg?itok =DIJv2DwN

More pictures are from http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/main/index.html

To imagine: the Earth looks at most 2" large (mv=+3) and the Moon 0.5" (mv=+8) max. 48" separated.
So a 20cm telescope is required to see Earth as a (tiny) ball and binos are required to see the Moon and a 75cm scope is required to see the Moon as a ball.
7 billion people living on such a tiny 'star' like object !

[Astro_Bot]

There's no place like home! :earth:


... and billions upon billions of planets (or so it seems) in the known universe ...

[04Stefan07]

Nice images. It's amazing to think how we are a tiny spec in the night sky.

[rustigsmed]

thats cool info skysurfer, cheers.
looking at the earth and moon picture makes me see earth/moon as a binary system, rather the earth and the moon.

[Barrykgerdes]

Here is a similar view from Encaladus looking towards the Sun and inner planets from a Stellarium screen shot. Note Saturn's rings are edge on from here.

Barry

[mr bruess]

iT JUST SHOWS HOW INSIGNIFICANT WE ARE in this big wide universe.

We are not at the centre of the universe as the ancients once believed.

We are just a "Pale blue Dot" with no special privileges.