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Old 27-07-2013, 05:42 PM
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Earth and Moon seen from Saturn

A great image of our Earth from Saturn.

http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/fi...?itok=DIJv2DwN

More pictures are from http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/ca...ain/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 !
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