This is a re-edited version of our 2012 video, "So, you think you've seen the Moon?" - it's been carefully reproduced (from scratch) using the original recordings. Originally shot in 1080p HD but only uploaded in 720p, this version benefits from better picture resolution, various other visual improvements and, crucially, we've fixed the audio during 'the park' segment which was previously inaudible if played back on a mono speaker configuration. Let us know in the comments if you'd like to see more of our older content given the same treatment.
Whenever someone asks me "how far is the moon from earth", my first answer tends to be "roughly one and a quarter light-second". It's easy enough to convert into local measurement units (metric or british colonial units) and it gives a good sense of "It's really, *really* far away. Even the fastest thing in the universe takes over a second to bridge the distance."
Thankyou so much for this. 2012 does not feel like that long ago, however when you factor in the post truth environment that some politicians and their followers have cultivated since the original video was released, this becomes well worthy of reproduction and preservation.
I'm going to show this clip at the next meeting of the student Astronomy Club at my local college. Ought to "open some eyes" I would think. Thanks much for this great re-edit and upload! Good to see this channel back in action!
Hi there glad to hear you liked it. And thanks for passing it on. if you haven't already done so, please don't forget to subscribe - it helps us more than you might think and ensures you won't miss our next upload on telescopic astronomy. KR A&NTV
Thanks for doing this again. I really enjoy looking at the moon. My favorite thing to do now is take a picture of video through one of my telescope then find artifact in the images and track down it's location and name. Fun stuff
01:04 You created an impressive way to demonstrate what was being questioned about the serenity of the Moon. 😃 I saw it many times, and each time with the sound a little higher.
Very well put together presentation on our closest spacial neighbor. A lot of the items you mentioned I have only learned about in the last 10-15 years, primarily by reading more about the Moon and being able to attend and participate in lunar events. It is probably safe to say that a large number of people do not comprehend the extreme difference between viewing the relative distance between us as projected in a book vs modeling correct relative sizes. Lastly, easily the most frequently asked question at a star party is why can't we see remnants of the Apollo missions. When informed that a scope in the 200 meter size would be required to do so confounds almost every inquisitor. Thanks again!
Hi there and thanks for posting, glad to hear you liked it. if you haven't already done so, please don't forget to subscribe - it helps us more than you might think and ensures you won't miss our next upload on telescopic astronomy. KR RJD A&NTV
@@RocketPlanet I already subscribed when I found your channel a few months back! It has some very helpful knowledge for someone like me who just got their first telescope. Looking forward to your next video!
Hi there, the book is UNIVERSE (8th edition) by Roger A. Freedman and William J. Kaufmann III. It's a student text book and I recommend it. KR RJD A&NTV
Hi! 😄 I am looking for a telescope that is affordable, though good enough to see saturn for example. Would you aid me in finding something like that? 🙏 Best regards Sondre Norway
Nobody ever asks me about the moon.. I could have shown off! I love this channel. One of my very favourite RUclips channels. I have watched the V2 series dozens of times.
I randomly came across the 2012 video, it immediately got into astro and bought a big newtonian. Now nearly 10 years later im super into astrophotography, got a Heq5 and a 72ed! Taking pictures that blow my mind that I can even capture such things. Pretty average compared to others but for me im super happy with what i can do. Thanks for that :)
Hi there and thanks for posting, glad to hear you liked it. if you haven't already done so, please don't forget to subscribe - it helps us more than you might think and ensures you won't miss our next upload on telescopic astronomy. KR A&NTV
You are a natural in front of the camera. I would think anything you decide to talk on and demonstrate would be of great interest. Keep doing it! Thanks
Excellent video ... again. The only thing I am missing is the extended interaction in the comment section with the brain-dead F-type Flatard in the original one :( ... ROFL
I love the idea of space exploration getting a burst of fresh blood and energy from companies such as Space X who want to bring communications and benefits to all humans when government programs have stagnated or just see space as a platform for weapons.
I find it interesting that everyone talks about the moon orbiting the earth an no one mentions that the earth and the moon both orbit a common center of gravity.
Hi Scott thanks for your comments. It's a question of perspective. It's customary to speak of mountains across the solar system in terms of base to peak height, rather than peak height above sea level (the Moon has seas in name only - you won't need a boat!). On this basis Mons Huygens soars a full kilometre (over 3000 feet) above Everest. Huygens stands clear of other peaks and rises from a nearly flat plain - an impressive sight I would imagine. Thanks for allowing me to clarify. KR RJD A&NTV
I've come around to the Moon 🌒 and I always resented it because if flooded the sky with natural light pollution and I couldn't see DSO's but it's part of the natural mechanics of our solar system and a very beautiful object in itself.One of the things I find amazing is the Earth Moon gap.... it's far!You can fit every planet in the solar system in that gap .
Yes, even with Earth included again, there's room left over for another Saturn! That's a nice image because we've all got a memory of encyclopedia pictures and classroom posters with a thin chord of the Solar disk on one side and an orderly troop of planets in a line next to it, forcefully suggesting celestial vastness. Thanks for your post. KR RJD A&NTV
@@RocketPlanet I've only discovered your channel today and was very impressed with a couple of your videos about the V2 missiles. Are you going to do a similar job on the V1 buzz bomb?
I guess you're not including the 1.3 billion people who live in Africa in that idea? We banked only on most folk knowing that Africa is one of the largest continents on Earth and impressive in its size. But thanks for sharing that thought - you may be right. A&NTV
@@RocketPlanet because of Mercator protection and African education statistics, i doubt we can count on 1,3 billion Africans realizing how big their own continent is. Videos using that true size website tool, and map comparisons of countries and continents sizes, show that most of us are unaware of the size of some places compared to our perceptions. True, maybe it's the size of Europe, which is actually quite minuscule, which is overestimated globally.
Hi there. Where we specified sizes (the white balls?), the model was accurate to about half a millimetre. We said a 70mm ball represented the Earth. Working from a 19mm Moon, the Earth should have been characterised by a 69.54mm ball. That's assuming the c.19mm polystyrene 'Moon' ball wasn't too far out of round where we measured it. With the Earth as the index - the Moon would scale down to 19.1mm. And I confess, in all the excitement, we might have miscalled that 19.1mm as 19mm. But seriously, all the models used were selected for their visual appeal and were accurate enough for the presentation. Useful tip: quote a time code. A&NTV
Considering that 12 people traveled to land and work there, and that it is a demonstrated, proven fact that it is a celestial body, where do you get the guts to come on a world-wide platform and express your extreme level of ignorance and lack of education? I've always wondered...
Seriously Tony, are you one of these 'experts', who actually knows NOTHING about how the Apollo lunar landing missions were conducted, yet still seems to think your knowledge extends to knowing that the missions weren't genuine? Perhaps you can share some information (other than what's found on some hoaxtard youtube video) that illustrates and definitively explains why the missions couldn't have been achieved?
If you don't think we landed on the moon give me your smart phone so I can smash it on the sidewalk. You don't deserve the fruits of aerospace engineering's labor. And if the U.S. didn't go to the moon the Soviet Union would have called us out on it.
There is not now, nor has there ever been in the last 50+ years, one single bit of documented, factual, scientifically-accurate, legitimate, mathematically-sound provable evidence ever given to support the claim that six missions from the Apollo Program did not land on the moon. There is no claim that you can make that hasn't already been debunked, hundreds (if not thousands) of times before you ever heard it. There is no way possible to disprove an existing historical fact. I defy you to do it. Keep in mind that your level of scientific illiteracy is not evidence. I'll wait... They landed. Six times. Deal with it. .
This is a re-edited version of our 2012 video, "So, you think you've seen the Moon?" - it's been carefully reproduced (from scratch) using the original recordings.
Originally shot in 1080p HD but only uploaded in 720p, this version benefits from better picture resolution, various other visual improvements and, crucially, we've fixed the audio during 'the park' segment which was previously inaudible if played back on a mono speaker configuration.
Let us know in the comments if you'd like to see more of our older content given the same treatment.
Definitely do some updates and re-edits
Thanks for fixing the audio.
Whenever someone asks me "how far is the moon from earth", my first answer tends to be "roughly one and a quarter light-second". It's easy enough to convert into local measurement units (metric or british colonial units) and it gives a good sense of "It's really, *really* far away. Even the fastest thing in the universe takes over a second to bridge the distance."
Thankyou so much for this.
2012 does not feel like that long ago, however when you factor in the post truth environment that some politicians and their followers have cultivated since the original video was released, this becomes well worthy of reproduction and preservation.
All your videos are fascinating. The more you produce or enhance the better.
Watched the original a couple of times, still watched the whole re-upload. Thanks!
Very nice video. Helped a lot with visualisation of actual size of the moon.
Keep making such great videos.
I'm going to show this clip at the next meeting of the student Astronomy Club at my local college. Ought to "open some eyes" I would think. Thanks much for this great re-edit and upload! Good to see this channel back in action!
Hi there glad to hear you liked it. And thanks for passing it on. if you haven't already done so, please don't forget to subscribe - it helps us more than you might think and ensures you won't miss our next upload on telescopic astronomy. KR A&NTV
When it's your 40th Birthday and RUclips flags up your favourite channel just uploaded a video! Life is good!
Really! My birthdays Sunday
Thanks for doing this again. I really enjoy looking at the moon. My favorite thing to do now is take a picture of video through one of my telescope then find artifact in the images and track down it's location and name. Fun stuff
01:04 You created an impressive way to demonstrate what was being questioned about the serenity of the Moon. 😃
I saw it many times, and each time with the sound a little higher.
Very well put together presentation on our closest spacial neighbor. A lot of the items you mentioned I have only learned about in the last 10-15 years, primarily by reading more about the Moon and being able to attend and participate in lunar events. It is probably safe to say that a large number of people do not comprehend the extreme difference between viewing the relative distance between us as projected in a book vs modeling correct relative sizes. Lastly, easily the most frequently asked question at a star party is why can't we see remnants of the Apollo missions. When informed that a scope in the 200 meter size would be required to do so confounds almost every inquisitor. Thanks again!
These videos are always so chill. I hope you're able to make another one some day but I know it's a lot of work so I understand if you don't.
Hi there and thanks for posting, glad to hear you liked it. if you haven't already done so, please don't forget to subscribe - it helps us more than you might think and ensures you won't miss our next upload on telescopic astronomy. KR RJD A&NTV
@@RocketPlanet I already subscribed when I found your channel a few months back! It has some very helpful knowledge for someone like me who just got their first telescope. Looking forward to your next video!
This really is thought provoking- going to look at the moon with fresh eyes !
Which book is this.
3.50
Hi there, the book is UNIVERSE (8th edition) by Roger A. Freedman and William J. Kaufmann III. It's a student text book and I recommend it. KR RJD A&NTV
Hi! 😄 I am looking for a telescope that is affordable, though good enough to see saturn for example. Would you aid me in finding something like that? 🙏
Best regards
Sondre
Norway
Nobody ever asks me about the moon.. I could have shown off! I love this channel. One of my very favourite RUclips channels. I have watched the V2 series dozens of times.
Isn't the "size pulse" just an artifact from the software?
Basically, plus or minus 1 Earth diameter, due to transparency?
Great video, thanks :)
The first book used seems rather interesting. Couldn't make its name from the video. Would you care to name it? Thank you.
Love your videos...keep them coming!!! Re-visit the Oculus all-sky camera
I randomly came across the 2012 video, it immediately got into astro and bought a big newtonian. Now nearly 10 years later im super into astrophotography, got a Heq5 and a 72ed! Taking pictures that blow my mind that I can even capture such things. Pretty average compared to others but for me im super happy with what i can do. Thanks for that :)
That looks like a vintage watch on your wrist. 😁
Maybe it's where I grew up, but I often thought of the moon as being a lot like the roadsigns riddled with bullet holes.
great video, thanks
Hi there and thanks for posting, glad to hear you liked it. if you haven't already done so, please don't forget to subscribe - it helps us more than you might think and ensures you won't miss our next upload on telescopic astronomy. KR A&NTV
This video reminds me of the Jade Rabbit that the Chinese (and others) see on the moon. Once you see it, you cannot "unsee".
OMG - the half-wit at time 7:35, lol.
That would be super cool. And a bit frightening.
Great job, thanks 👍⭐
We want new videos
keep them coming please :)
You are a natural in front of the camera.
I would think anything you decide to talk on and demonstrate would be of great interest.
Keep doing it!
Thanks
Atmospheric lensing increases the apparent size of the moon when rising by an additional 30% How did you miss that.
Excellent video ... again. The only thing I am missing is the extended interaction in the comment section with the brain-dead F-type Flatard in the original one :( ... ROFL
I love the idea of space exploration getting a burst of fresh blood and energy from companies such as Space X who want to bring communications and benefits to all humans when government programs have stagnated or just see space as a platform for weapons.
30 Earth Diameters Away! Veratasium
I find it interesting that everyone talks about the moon orbiting the earth an no one mentions that the earth and the moon both orbit a common center of gravity.
2 meters is 2000 millimeters, not 200.
Check out plasma moon
But only if you're immortal and time has no valuable for you. KR RJD A&NTV
Street astronomy should be more of a thing
Great video , thanks . However Mons Huygen is 18,000ft whereas Everest is 29,000ft . Not quite the same but impressive none the less . Cheers !/SRK
Hi Scott thanks for your comments. It's a question of perspective. It's customary to speak of mountains across the solar system in terms of base to peak height, rather than peak height above sea level (the Moon has seas in name only - you won't need a boat!). On this basis Mons Huygens soars a full kilometre (over 3000 feet) above Everest. Huygens stands clear of other peaks and rises from a nearly flat plain - an impressive sight I would imagine. Thanks for allowing me to clarify. KR RJD A&NTV
Moon is not a sphere. Lunar is a construct.
I've come around to the Moon 🌒 and I always resented it because if flooded the sky with natural light pollution and I couldn't see DSO's but it's part of the natural mechanics of our solar system and a very beautiful object in itself.One of the things I find amazing is the Earth Moon gap.... it's far!You can fit every planet in the solar system in that gap .
Yes, even with Earth included again, there's room left over for another Saturn! That's a nice image because we've all got a memory of encyclopedia pictures and classroom posters with a thin chord of the Solar disk on one side and an orderly troop of planets in a line next to it, forcefully suggesting celestial vastness. Thanks for your post. KR RJD A&NTV
@@RocketPlanet I've only discovered your channel today and was very impressed with a couple of your videos about the V2 missiles.
Are you going to do a similar job on the V1 buzz bomb?
Comparing the Moon surface area with Africa? That's probably the continent most people have least idea about it's real size.
I guess you're not including the 1.3 billion people who live in Africa in that idea? We banked only on most folk knowing that Africa is one of the largest continents on Earth and impressive in its size. But thanks for sharing that thought - you may be right. A&NTV
@@RocketPlanet because of Mercator protection and African education statistics, i doubt we can count on 1,3 billion Africans realizing how big their own continent is.
Videos using that true size website tool, and map comparisons of countries and continents sizes, show that most of us are unaware of the size of some places compared to our perceptions.
True, maybe it's the size of Europe, which is actually quite minuscule, which is overestimated globally.
Africa is a perfectly good and helpful comparison.
wow :)
I've seen half of it.
the model of earth and moon are not on the same scale!
Hi there. Where we specified sizes (the white balls?), the model was accurate to about half a millimetre. We said a 70mm ball represented the Earth. Working from a 19mm Moon, the Earth should have been characterised by a 69.54mm ball. That's assuming the c.19mm polystyrene 'Moon' ball wasn't too far out of round where we measured it. With the Earth as the index - the Moon would scale down to 19.1mm. And I confess, in all the excitement, we might have miscalled that 19.1mm as 19mm. But seriously, all the models used were selected for their visual appeal and were accurate enough for the presentation. Useful tip: quote a time code. A&NTV
you think 'know' so much about it, but still didn't realize is not an object in space ? .. the moon is actually just a reflection ..
Honestly ? and what is your evidence for that ?
Don't you have a bag full of spray paint to huff?
Considering that 12 people traveled to land and work there, and that it is a demonstrated, proven fact that it is a celestial body, where do you get the guts to come on a world-wide platform and express your extreme level of ignorance and lack of education? I've always wondered...
OH ...AND MAN DID NOT GO TO THE MOON !!!!!!
Really and what bit of the technology was beyond you ?
Seriously Tony, are you one of these 'experts', who actually knows NOTHING about how the Apollo lunar landing missions were conducted, yet still seems to think your knowledge extends to knowing that the missions weren't genuine?
Perhaps you can share some information (other than what's found on some hoaxtard youtube video) that illustrates and definitively explains why the missions couldn't have been achieved?
Got nothing to back up your bullshit ? Nah I thought not
If you don't think we landed on the moon give me your smart phone so I can smash it on the sidewalk. You don't deserve the fruits of aerospace engineering's labor. And if the U.S. didn't go to the moon the Soviet Union would have called us out on it.
There is not now, nor has there ever been in the last 50+ years, one single bit of documented, factual, scientifically-accurate, legitimate, mathematically-sound provable evidence ever given to support the claim that six missions from the Apollo Program did not land on the moon. There is no claim that you can make that hasn't already been debunked, hundreds (if not thousands) of times before you ever heard it. There is no way possible to disprove an existing historical fact. I defy you to do it. Keep in mind that your level of scientific illiteracy is not evidence.
I'll wait...
They landed.
Six times.
Deal with it.
.