If Jupiter was where the moon was...

[pss53]

This is how it would appear in the night sky...

Certainly good to get a perspective how big these planets are...

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Be amazing we could see Jupiter that close...

[kniclander]

nice - i guess even i could see the grs ...

[mindburner]

great video, if Jupiter was that close we would all be very irradiated indeed, warm up those cold observing nights though:D

[brianb]

if Jupiter was that close we would all be very irradiated indeed

Yup. And the tidal effects would make the surface of Earth like that of Io ... not very conducive to the sort of life we live.

Personally, on nights around full moon, I often wish the one we had was a lot smaller, not larger.

[Mr Spock]

I'd like Mars to be there. Just imagine the hours of observing you could do!

Plus it would be in the habitable zone...

[stevelcfc]

my photographs would be a lot better

[brianb]

Plus it would be in the habitable zone...

... but it still wouldn't be habitable, being warmer would simply have lost its atmosphere & water faster.

Mars & Earth at 400,000 km would have ruined each other tidally.

[Hig]

also you wouldnt see much else if jupiter was up there that big all night, half the sky would be behind it...

[alowen]

Just showed my kids this, they were amazed by ole Jupiters size. I tried explaining the suns size in relationship but Jupiter was too impressive to them.

Good vid, thanks for posting.

Al

[Thomas]

This video is actually quite misleading. It suggests that, as seen at the distance of the moon, Jupiter would virtually fill the sky. In fact, it would only subtend an angle of about 23 degrees.

[ColB]

Personally, on nights around full moon, I often wish the one we had was a lot smaller, not larger.

But then we wouldn't get the awesome solar eclipses that we do. I'm still amazed that it is just a coincidence that the Moon and Sun are the same apparant size.

[Dai150PL]

Cool vid made me giggle.

[Simms]

WOW!

There is another vid on youtube that shows you the sun against some of the really big stars out there - thats a real mindblower!

[ColB]

WOW!

There is another vid on youtube that shows you the sun against some of the really big stars out there - thats a real mindblower!

I haven't seen that youtube vid but I love this graphic:

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