So, you think you've seen the Moon?
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- Опубликовано: 12 июн 2012
- Does familiarity breed contempt or just disinterest? The Moon is one of the most familiar objects in the night sky, so familiar in fact that it is often overlooked - even by astronomers! This video might surprise you - it asks you to think again about the Moon and - more importantly - to take a proper look at it, perhaps for the first time in your life.
Presented by Robert J Dalby FRAS
Produced by DB Video Services for Astronomy and Nature TV 
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A re-edited version of this video is now available: ruclips.net/video/1px2zeCgvx8/видео.html
It 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.
Glad i found this guys videos
Great video! You're a very good teacher/presenter. You should make a "So, you think you've seen it" series and do our sun, planets, galaxies, etc.
adamaj hehe, yeah or maybe: "so you think the earth is flat"
Excellent video! I've been an amateur astronomer for 50 yrs and have never even thought of some of the things you mentioned here. Keep up the good work!
This is the most fascinating video I have seen! You should set up your own program on TV for astronomy! Keep up the good work! And thanks for the experience! I go now have a proper look at the Moon :)
Outstanding video. Twenty minutes of mine well spent. Thank you.
Just great! Really enjoying your videos, Robert. I know this one is nearly 7 years old, but it won't ever get old! Well done.
Very informative. Thank you for posting and making it in the first place.
I have learned so much from You Tube it is incredible.
When I looked stuff up in our Encyclopedia Britannica as I was growing up in Iowa, I always read items that I didn't start out looking for.
I ended up reading most of the entire library of those wonderful books.
Again thank you sir.
Thanks a lot for this film!
As a beginner amateur astronomer, I learned a lot.
The software recommendations are also very useful.
Appreciate all the awesome work you are doing and thanks for sharing!
This makes me very happy. I always have this fascination towards the Moon since childhood. I love staring at it especially when it's full moon.
I had a dream several years ago that I flew like Superman to the moon. It only took about 3 seconds. It's probably the most realistic dream I've ever had. I was down on a vast plain slowing moving about 3 feet from the surface and looking up at the face of a vast, high mountain range, just like what he showed here. I flew up on top of this mountain range and looked down on the vast plain. I could see the earth above the horizon, in color, just like that famous picture of the earth taken from the moon. The most fantastic dream I've ever had!
You can speak well without demolishing the romantic aspect...after all one can see the beauty of the moon in the sky and with the beauty of its light one cannot help to 'love it'...so full moon for facts presentation, just no need to undo what we love . Thank you.
As an amateur astronomer myself, I appreciate your 'No-nonsense' approach and the light-hearted way you put over the information in an easy to understand way. You are able to put people at ease by removing the high-and-mighty approach some take. Well done and keep up the good work. An interesting point that some may find interesting for scale, when looking at the full Moon, imagine dividing the diameter by about 2100 times as that's what looking at something one mile across would look like as seen from Earth. BTW, that's about the resolving power limit of my largest telescope. :-)
You guys are great, I have watched loads of your vids and they have really helped me out a lot with my telescope
I’m addicted to these videos thank you!
Thank you for the great info. I learned a lot, thanks.
one of the most thought provoking vids I've ever seen on YT...well done...just got myself an 8 inch Dob....first scope , soaking up advice from all corners of the web...
hello from Des Moines Iowa!!! great vid.
Do you know bill bryson ?
8 years after this video, we're on the verge of obscuring the night sky with 60k and more satellites
Good story teller, thanks.. brilliant entertainment !! You've sold it to me !!
What a knowledgeable Guy you are and a fantastic channel! Totally hooked!
Excellent subject and great presentation. Many thanks
Simply amazing this video! Good presenter and script.
This was a most wonderful video. Thank you. 👍
Fascinating! Why were lessons nowhere near as interesting as that when I was at school?! Just got our first telescope, a Skywatcher 130p AZ goto, so we're complete beginners lol
it all comes down to "who teaches it".
My favorite video of RUclips... Liked and subscribed
Really nice video. Thanks for that. I really wish I had a clear sky at the moment.
Great video, fun and very informative.
Well done!
Amazing, Im gonna take a proper look at the Moon, thanks.
Wonderfully made video.. thank you Sir.
Simply brilliant! Thank you
Thanks Robert for another excellent informative video!
Very well presented - clear and educational - you should do this for a living! I got the distance and size questions pretty close - I remember blocking out the moon with a pencil at arms length. Nice video, thanks.
Very nice video with a very eloquent and clear presenter. Thanks!
Your voice is soothing. I subscribed
BBC / ITV here's a guy that needs signing up!! Great video, excellent presentation and very engaging, I learned a lot
Andy..
love it ,love it , keep doing them great videos !!!
good general source. One point: people do NOT all see the moon exactly the same. If someone in southern argentina looks at the moon and someone in London does, they will see inverted images of one another by virtue of them looking from a southern hemisphere vs. northern perspective. This was made obvious when I met some women from new zealand in hawaii. The moon was high in the sky and very bright (near full) and they commented that it "looked funny". To them it was upside-down in comparison to how they normally see it.
Apparently in the catholic culture of latin america, when they see the arrangment of maria and highlands, they refer to the patter as "the dragon and saint george' whereas in northern hemisphere the phrase tends to be "the man in the moon" since the arrangement is popularly anthropomorphized as a face. Upside down, it is much less likely to be imagined so.
Hi Tracy, that's a good point - the variation in the apparent attitude of the Moon's appearance in the sky relative to the local horizon. And as you correctly point out it depends on your position on the Earth's surface and which hemisphere you are in. I was actually referring only to the naked-eye visible surface of the Moon but your point is a good one and thanks for contributing. KR RJD A&NTV
Awesome video. I watched the end 3 times :)
Great video, thanks for uploading!
Great video again! Thought it would be at least 1 meter, considering the size of the earth and moon. Very interesting!!
Thanks! I had no idea that the moon changed in apparent size like that. Cool!
You probably won't see this comment, I'm writing in Jan. of 2021. All I can think of besides the moon, is how lovely it is to see people enjoying a summer's day, sitting close by each other on the grass with no sign of a mask! Happy days!
On another note, as a big moon fan myself, I've been noticing it of late appearing in the sky in weird places where it isn't usually?? Same time of day, one day in front of my home low in the sky at suppertime 6:30 pm-ish, next night same time back of the house, another time high above the house?? I'm like, "what're you doing there?" as I have lived here over 25 years and am very familiar with the moon placements. It just seems odd to me. I've searched around the net and have found a few others mentioning it, do you know anything about this? Nice video btw, thumbs up!
Hi there, and thanks. No, as you can see, I saw your comment. The small beleaguered pocket of the human race that is familiar with, and has respect for, the methods and results of science, know that the position of the Moon for every split second of the day can be calculated and confirmed to an accuracy of
Fascinating, thanks.
An excellent Video. Well done A&NC. Very well done Robert.
Unexpected nice.
Amazing , blown my mind ,thank you !
Cracking good and Informative Vid !!! :)
Excellent video and series. Watching in July 2021!
3:05 is real estate the best choice of words lollll
Thanks for the video... Great way to show the size and distance.
most impressed. Well done you!
SO AWESOME
Wasn't expecting that. Excellent video, and very interesting!
you are awesome sir!
Very educational & oh so interesting. Keep up the good work.
What an excellent video. You are a great presenter.
beautiful and clever way to explain the whole thing thanks a lot
Very enjoyable!
Wow...have I ever looked at our closest neighbor in our sky in the most improper way. I thank you for getting me correct on what I havebbeen looking at mostly each and every nigh.I have been under the impression that after my school years s I have view things in a not so perfect way.
Watching you clip.your demonstration and listening carefully to your words I will now look at our mind with eyes wide open and not in a hale based in correct view.
Thanks from a Yank in the Catskill Mountain Range of NY State USA.
There is so much to revisit in As from my that I thought I had down pats so many years passed but now in my 70 and getting back into the hobby and thanks to your channel I might just understand more about the world we all live in. Right in time before the day comes when I take my last journey out of our word. It will be so nice to know where I sort started and where I will travel to when the day comes as I depart Mother Earth in search of Heaven and Gods Kingdom.
Thank you sir... Well Done
Mike Fisher NY USA
The best part of this video is at the very end when you, Robert J. Dalby, saved the world! We earthlings, including future generations, are eternally indebted to you.
Well done for another supurb Video. Put over in an interesting way which just brings it all into perspective and make you want to spend even more time looking at the Moon, which is some times forgotten as a subject to view
Thanks
Bill
Horwich, Lanc's
Delightful and instructive!
brilliant, graphic and usefriendly explanation.. well done.
So glad I found this dude.
Thanks very professional.
Great ending.
Regards from North Wales
awesome info Thank You .
Thanks for mentioning Ilford...my old stamping ground...lol..😂😂
Great, very informative video. I think that the best way to illustrate earth-moon distance though is to try to fit all of the planets of the solar system in between them. you'll still be left with roughly 4000km of empty space
Excellent... cheers team
Excellent video and very informative.
my 10x50 celestron upclose bins arrived today. and it was a crisp full moon.......... bloody nora, I was amazed..... I have now ordered the skywatcher skymax 102 eq2 I have been humming and arring about for a month. Cant wait until I can get another chance to view it with a sky like tonight in higher detail.........will be watching more of your videos thanks..
Love your clear explanations Sir
It's been 8 years but I hope you got a microphone by now.
Well done guys great video.
Wow this is now my go to moon video
Great video, very informative and well presented
Very interesting.You should write books about astromony,you make it so easy to understand.Thanks again for posting.
I knew all that except the last one, not sure why the last one is so deceptive in our minds
Amazing content.
I love your vids!
this is cool :)
Watch out, Sir Patrick, you have competition. Most excellent.
Loved the chasing the earth scene
i gather he kicked it too.
For those people watching this on a mobile device (e.g. Phone or tablet) experiencing no sound in the very interesting outdoor park section around the 6:30 mark, just plug in a pair of headphones.😉
Excellent video.
You are blowing my mind
I could listen to this guy for hours
Haha, and the end made me laugh
Excellent video
Very nice video, very good work guys
I paused the video to measure. Good point on eyewitness. :)
the park video had no sound.
The two channels were out of phase during that part. Probably your device had a mono speaker, and mixed the stereo channels into one, which canceled out each other.
You need to wear earphones
Epic. What a wonderful channel
Mind blowing 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
Although it has been up since 2012, i had not seen it. A great Video clear and easy to follow I have downloaded the Moon Globe HD App i must say it is a great App . My Grand children will love it while looking through the scope to identify the craters Ect. Late in the day i know but a big well done from me.
very nice
From what i saw, very well presented chat. Unfortunately once you went 'in the feild', my device decided to decode the audio all wrong. Called it tho, moon at that scale is about a few meters.
Nfi why the audio has gone bad tho. Good stuff tho. Praise be to the moon. Tides are pretty handy, n a balanced counterweight is always worth having ;)
Very very cool video
They way I learnt about moon size, was to hold a small coin that covered the moon on the horizon , and then hold the same coin at the same length as the moon reached it's zenith. i dod some quick mental maths on the scale of the moon and earth and came up with 2.5m (memory isn't what it was)
Interesting vid like all fron A&N.
Interview It's a wonderful voice.
I was entertained.