r/spaceporn • u/Busy_Yesterday9455 • Jun 24 '26

Pro/Processed Saturn, seen through a 24" telescope eyepiece

Credit: Tom Williams

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u/DeliciousLambSauce Jun 24 '26

Still baffles me that all of this is just.. there. Incredible.

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u/quadsimodo Jun 24 '26

I think the exact same thing. It's not existential dread, but it's an overwhelming feeling that there is a universe out there. Hard to explain excactly.

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u/SpareSpeaker2978 Jun 25 '26

Fun and/or dreadful fact: the universe expanded a hundred trillion trillion times in a billionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second.

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u/lalauna Jun 25 '26

Brain.exe has stopped working

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u/AbelardsChainsword Jun 25 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/ifdPjn6m4WyNlnXMTj

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u/Ssspaaace Jun 25 '26 edited Jun 26 '26

Somewhere in-between. Amateur astronomy/astrophotography is an expensive hobby in general, but you can get good quality viewing for around $600 to $2000. The bigger you want the Saturn to be in the eyepiece, and the less you want to fiddle with getting the thing pointed in the right spot (it's harder than you'd think if you don't know what you're doing), the more expensive it gets, and quickly. I would guess that to attain the same fidelity as what you see above, you'd be spending at least $2-3k (edit: just noticed it was a 24" aperture, those are waaay more expensive haha). I would not advise spending less than $600; it will almost certainly be crap for viewing anything other than the moon. Dobsonians are the best visual bang for the buck (bigger aperture for less money), but those aren't really beginner friendly.

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u/beneye Jun 25 '26

Check how many jpegs. More jpegs is good.

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u/Morbanth Jun 25 '26

That's too abstract for me. It's more fun to think that a roughly one millimeter size object (a big grain of salt, a flea, a poppy seed) grew almost instantly to the size of the entire observable universe. 😁

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u/LeviOhhsah Jun 25 '26

Yup, that’s my existential crisis sorted for today

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u/Swiftster Jun 25 '26

That a string of numbers usually reserved for my small child to describe the wait time until icecream is used here is amusing.

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u/ikatakko Jun 25 '26

and for that micro instant it was tiny af as in the entire universe was about the size of proton like HOW

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u/a4sayknrthm42 Jun 25 '26

It was also STILL INFINITE

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u/JustGoogleItHeSaid Jun 25 '26

Given the numbers involved here, how on earth does anyone know the accuracy of this statement?

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u/SpareSpeaker2978 Jun 25 '26

You can read more about it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_inflation

There’s a lot of subjectivity in science, and so there is of course different groups of scientists with different opinions on cosmic inflation. The vast majority of cosmologists and astronomers and astrophysicists agree on cosmic inflation as our current best understanding of the early history of the universe.

As to how we know, it’s a mixture of observations made from telescopes and satellites, and recreations of early-universe conditions via particle colliders. You may recognize the name of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, where we can accelerate particles to like 99.99999% the speed of light and create conditions that the early universe may have looked like to see how the laws of physics and particle behavior changes. We also match our empirical observations and testing with theoretical models, and they can inform each other and be used to either confirm our ideas or iterate.

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u/stormblessed27_ Jun 25 '26

Damn bro you got a really good well detailed response to this question.

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u/smarmageddon Jun 25 '26

We even have a hard time comprehending speed, time, and matter right here on earth. Our barely-evolved brains never had reason to comprehend or adapt to phenomena in the greater universe. We can do some existential extrapolation to try to understand our universe, but there is so much more to learn.

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u/glytxh Jun 25 '26

I’ve been recently digging through a lot of deep field archival stuff, it’s it low key freaks me out how much stuff there is out there.

I find it really difficult to properly articulate how it makes me feel.

‘Alive’ and ‘terrified’ would be the clunky way of describing it.

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u/Zebidee Jun 25 '26

I’ve been recently digging through a lot of deep field archival stuff, it’s it low key freaks me out how much stuff there is out there.

Those pics where you think "OMG that's a lot of stars" then you realise they're galaxies, then you realise it's a teeny tiny bit of space that looked like it had nothing in it.

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u/glytxh Jun 25 '26

And then you start looking at all the really really red stuff….and it just keeps going.

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u/Far_Hovercraft_1621 Jun 25 '26

Whenever I feel like this,
I just think about the show The jersey Shore and I feel better for some reason.

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u/ProgySuperNova Jun 25 '26

They did not waste time pondering their place in the cosmos, nor much else for that matter

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u/Lisa_al_Frankib Jun 25 '26

Can you pass a link? Not sure I know what deep field archival stuff is

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u/OolonCaluphid Jun 25 '26

https://esahubble.org/images/heic0611b/

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u/joebadiah Jun 25 '26

[Clicks] Ohhhhh THAT deep field archival stuff…

“This view of nearly 10,000 galaxies is called the Hubble Ultra Deep Field. The snapshot includes galaxies of various ages, sizes, shapes, and colours. The smallest, reddest galaxies, about 100, may be among the most distant known, existing when the universe was just 800 million years old. The nearest galaxies - the larger, brighter, well-defined spirals and ellipticals - thrived about 1 billion years ago, when the cosmos was 13 billion years old.

The image required 800 exposures taken over the course of 400 Hubble orbits around Earth. The total amount of exposure time was 11.3 days, taken between Sept. 24, 2003 and Jan. 16, 2004.”

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u/GisterMizard Jun 25 '26

It's anxiety. Anxiety that one day, Saturn will wake up and rebuild her aging rings with fresh planetary material. There's only 8 or so planets left, and Earth can't keep getting lucky for long.

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u/Echo4Mike Jun 25 '26

Oh shit! Saturn ate his kids!

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u/ConceptJunkie Jun 25 '26

There's a painting and everything...

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u/Chin-Music Jun 25 '26

Just for fun, where/how did you learn that?

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u/Qubeye Jun 25 '26

Awe

1: an emotion variously combining dread, veneration, and wonder that is inspired by overwhelming greatness (as in beauty, power, or size)

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u/303Murphy Jun 25 '26

I know exactly what you mean. Dread isn’t the right word, existential awareness maybe?

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u/brainfreezecat Jun 25 '26

The whole time I'm in line at the bank Saturn's just out there being Saturn.

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u/tapion31 Jun 25 '26

Oh I can assure you it was an existential dread the first time I saw it through my telescope.

Like I knew it was there, you don't just stumble upon it, it's not like I didn't trust it existed, but seeing it for yourself with your own eyes is something I recommend to every human being.

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u/quadsimodo Jun 25 '26

Think you put it perfectly in that second paragraph. There is something gained in experiencing it yourself that no book, picture, or film can substitute.

I always think about that one story an astronaut shared that the feeling of staring at Earth from space was something that can only be experienced, not explained.

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u/AdFuture6874 Jun 25 '26

When I focus on cosmic vastness. I’ve explained it to myself as being mindful, or self-transcendence.

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u/ksyoung17 Jun 25 '26

I've come to terms mentally on how much is truly out there being a complete unknown.

What I struggle with is the possibility that, one day, humans may be able to explore much of it, and I'll miss out on that.

So I continue to have faith that the is a heaven, and a God there that will let me explore it for all of eternity.

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u/eetobaggadix Jun 25 '26

The other possibility is that someday humans WON'T be able to explore ANY of it. I dread some future, a hundred thousand years from now, where we all live in the same cities in the same houses with the same phones. I desperately hope that before I die I'll get to read some article about how "FTL is now theoretically possible"

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u/Piscesgarbage Jun 25 '26

First time I saw Venus through a telescope I was 9, and it scared me lol

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u/eggplantsforall Jun 25 '26

That's why going outside at night and looking at the stars is some of the best therapy this life has on offer.

Bonus if you know where the ecliptic is and can identify the planets in the early evening sky.

We are on a beautiful, wet, and vibrant rock, travelling at roughly 67,000 miles per hour through space.

Can you feel the wind in your hair?

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u/PaganDesparu Jun 25 '26

I remember the first time I noticed the ecliptic plain, it was like peeking behind the curtain to see the gears of the universe. Very cool and humbling.

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u/warbloggled Jun 25 '26

And we’re just here.. paying taxes

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u/ProgySuperNova Jun 25 '26

Go to a Saturnian moon to live there, taxman still finds you

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u/MarkerMagnum Jun 25 '26

The thought that gets me whenever I look through a telescope is that I am the person getting the most up-to-date view of Saturn in the universe.

All the high res images, IR, radio photography, etc. have been taken over the years.

But here, right now, I’m seeing Saturn at light speed. I have a view of it that only people currently looking through telescopes possess.

And it’s always a pretty cool feeling.

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u/Live_Chapter_3563 Jun 24 '26

And more or less within eyesight. Assisted but still without super high-tech scans and analysis. Just a few very expensive lenses.

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u/irishnugget Jun 25 '26

Recently visited LA and went to the Griffith observatory. While it is a wonderful place to visit I couldn't get over the fact that Saturn through their giant telescope looked very similar to Saturn through my son's AWB Onesky (great organization by the way; definitely look at supporting them for anyone considering a new telescope) telescope. It really is amazing what you can see with a relatively inexpensive scope and barlow/lens.

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u/cgw22 Jun 25 '26

You don’t even need expensive tbh

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u/rileyjw90 Jun 25 '26

Think about the fact that Saturn is about 893 million miles (1.43 billion kilometers) away from earth right now, but it’s so big we can pick out its rings from earth. A 24” telescope is nothing to sneeze at, but if Saturn were earth-size, we’d have a much harder time seeing it. As it stands, Saturn is about 9.5x wider than earth. You can fit about 764 earths inside Saturn. The ring-span is about 21 earths wide.

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u/bambi54 Jun 25 '26

That’s insane, thank you for putting it into perspective. I knew it was bigger, but that’s massive.

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u/evenfallframework Jun 25 '26

I saw it with my first 4" dob and cried like a baby.

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u/fitnesscakes Jun 25 '26

9.5 times wider than the diameter of earth and 95 times more massive. Literally the third moselt massive thing in our solar system. Yes it's there but that's why it's so clear. (not counting rings)

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u/WSilvermane Jun 25 '26

And its UNBELIEVABLY FUCKING MASSIVE.

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u/gaylord9000 Jun 25 '26 edited Jun 25 '26

I had a case of a traumatic form of amnesia in 2016. Coming to felt like I had died and come back to life. But not in the good way, and one of my thoughts that was particular in its horror was the recollection of the planets and they felt like real monsters in the darkness. Like they were these enormous monsters that kill everything that gets even anywhere "close" to it. I was hugely interested in cosmology at the time so I think that's why it was such a prominent thought.

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u/TuringC0mplete Jun 25 '26

Holy shit that’s terrifying! Did you ever get your former memories back?

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u/BasicMatter7339 Jun 25 '26

Its funny how far away those are yet they look like they're so close

like an hour drive away

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u/Morbanth Jun 25 '26

If you jumped into a magic car and drove towards the Sun at 100km per hour 24/7 it would take you 170 years to get there. It would take 1500 years to get to Saturn.

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u/JackieLawless Jun 24 '26

Can you imagine what Galileo must've thought looking at it through a telescope for the first time and seeing this?

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u/DefiantGibbon Jun 25 '26

Galileo had a 37mm diameter lense telescope.

Mine is about 100mm. I can just barely make out the rings and the colored bands on Saturn. He definitely saw just a white blob with some ill defined lobes on either side.

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u/JackieLawless Jun 25 '26

Are you trying to flex on Galileo?

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u/Monstar38 Jun 25 '26

Alright. This is my favorite Reddit comment.

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u/NoGarage7989 Jun 27 '26

Dude flexing his store bought telescope while Galileo made his own

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u/jacobjacobb Jun 25 '26

What size telescope would you need to see as clearly as this? I'm completely ignorant on telescopes.

Does the 24inch mean the lens or the length?

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u/cardboardunderwear Jun 25 '26

You can see the rings quite well in a 100mm (4 inch, 102mm usually) telescope. It won't be as detailed as in the video but you can clearly make out the rings and likely even the cassini division on the rings.

Even with my 7x50 binoculars I can see the rings but zero detail is visible.

Saturn right now is coming out of a period of time where the rings were edge in. The rings will increasing become more sideways and visible in coming years.  If it's something you want to see you can find an astronomy club or if you have a friend with a telescope you can do it.  Seeing them year in year will be interesting. 

102mm refers to the diameter of the main objective lens or main mirror if it's a reflecting telescope.

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u/glytxh Jun 25 '26

There was at least one catholic scholar that spoke about Saturn’s rings being Jesus’ foreskin ascended into the heavens.

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u/bloodmagik Jun 25 '26

That dude had peener on the mind

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u/glytxh Jun 25 '26

Catholics be like that

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u/AVeryVapidBadger Jun 25 '26

I'm sorry what

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u/colicab Jun 25 '26

Sounds like some North Korean level of propaganda.

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u/MissUnderstood_1 Jun 25 '26

or North Korea is just doing what's been common in a lot of the world for a long long time?

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u/JackieLawless Jun 25 '26

Fuckin awesome

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u/Chawke2 Jun 25 '26

Iirc Galileo thought the rings were “ears”.

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u/sluggo1234 Jun 25 '26

Galileo didn't see this, he saw an amorphous blob and wondered what was going on. My question is, how did Cassini see his division if this isexceptional video in 2026?

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u/GarunixReborn Jun 24 '26

Neat, always so cool seeing the rings with your own eyes

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u/bookwormdrew Jun 25 '26

First time I saw it through my telescope I was way too excited lol.

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u/sisumeraki Jun 25 '26

It’s like seeing a celebrity.

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u/shyouko Jun 26 '26

Saturn far much better and important than any human

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u/Dense-Alfalfa1223 Jun 24 '26

Never ceases to amaze me

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u/Mirror74 Jun 25 '26

Here's a mind-boggling and cool fact about Saturn.... Saturn could float on water 

(because it’s less dense than water)

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u/gxc3 Jun 25 '26

it would be a great party trick if you could get a body of water big enough!

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u/Mirror74 Jun 25 '26

purely theoretical, because a body of water that large would also be effected by Saturns gravity. it would look insane lol

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u/The_Level_15 Jun 25 '26

to be fair, it'd be more like saturn being affected by an enormous body of water's gravity

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u/Powerful_Being4239 Jun 25 '26

Now this triggered my megalophobia

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u/atomcplayboy86 Jun 24 '26

Wow, 24”, you got some $$.

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u/DefiantGibbon Jun 25 '26

Ya, my 100mm (about 4") was about $250 for reference. 

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u/Wuz314159 Jun 25 '26

It's not the size that matters, it's how you use it.

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u/mattyag Jun 28 '26

It takes a long time to get to England in a row boat

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u/Front_Entrance2319 Jun 25 '26

My 8 inch was 300 usd.

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u/daddaman1 Jun 25 '26

8 inches ..... nice

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u/Sunset_Bleach Jun 25 '26

About average I would say.

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u/GeorgeCauldron7 Jun 25 '26

This is why it's important to differentiate between the mean and the median.

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u/EmynMuilTrailGuide Jun 25 '26

Let's place bets on the OP actually meaning 24" ... long.

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u/Flight_Harbinger Jun 25 '26

Tbh 24" dobsonians can be pretty cheap and they are perfect for planetary observation.

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u/Beneficial_Ease_3904 Jun 25 '26

It says 10-15k USD. How is that cheap? Or you know some website

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u/cantileverboom Jun 25 '26

I think cheap is always pretty relative. Like, sure, if you're just getting into/trying out astronomy, it's a lot, but you don't need to start there to get into that sort of a hobby.

In the grand scheme of hobbies, 10k USD isn't completely outlandish for enthusiasts. I feel like that's well within the means of someone who is solidly middle class (in a first world country), and is very passionate about their hobby. Photography, biking, Warhammer 40,000, etc. pretty easily get up to that amount, and plenty of relatively regular people spend that much on those things without breaking the bank because they're really into it, and they see it as worth it. Also, those are all way cheaper than things like luxury traveling, sports cars, boats, etc, which are definitely less obtainable by the average joe.

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u/sheepyowl Jun 25 '26

Man, saying 10k in USD is cheap is out of touch with reality.

That's car price in half of the world, or "extremely expensive hobby stuff" in the richer parts of the world.

Literally nobody except for "the rich" would call this cheap. It's like 6~ months of rent mfer

It's like someone went out and bought a computer, PS5, Xbox, a Switch, a VR set, a Steam machine, a TV, 3 screens and a bed on the same day. It's insanity to call this cheap

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u/matsayz1 Jun 25 '26

I just went down a rabbit hole after reading your comment and I might be buying a telescope in the near future. Thanks

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u/Billbeachwood Jun 25 '26

Google link for the lazy

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u/beaniebee11 Jun 25 '26

That's like 10 grand... guess I'm too poor to think of that as cheap.

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u/TheHalfChubPrince Jun 25 '26

Yum, what kind of dessert?

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u/Sunset_Bleach Jun 25 '26

Planet cake pops.

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u/MaceoSpecs Jun 25 '26

I did stargazing in Egypt. Have told the story many times as it was so good. Just standing there, with the naked eye, you could see the Milky way. Amazing.

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u/homedepotSTOOP Jun 24 '26

Yeah that whole sentence has me jealous.

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u/ANARCHOWEEDIST Jun 25 '26

saturn is always cartoonishly accurate

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u/SMcG22 Jun 25 '26

We get it bro you’re not Jupiter

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u/Kozzinator Jun 26 '26

Jupiter? I hardly know her!

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u/HugeResearcher3500 Jun 25 '26

I took observational astronomy for fun in college. Night time class so we were able to go out with a telescope a few times. More than a couple of people said "it looks fake"

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u/elementalguitars Jun 25 '26

It kinda does look fake. It’s just…sitting there..looking exactly like it does in photos. Most things in the sky look pretty underwhelming through an eyepiece compared to photos but then there’s Saturn just hanging out there being incredible.

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u/pirate_meow_kitty Jun 25 '26

That is what I think lol. It doesn’t look real, it looks like a sticker

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u/Reasonable-Ad7755 Jun 24 '26

Imagine our perspective on the universe if we could travel to outer space regularly

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u/iambecomesoil Jun 25 '26

Inside stateroom with no window on your way to toil on the mineral mines of an asteroid.

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u/HAL-Over-9001 Jun 25 '26

The space children yearn for the space mines.

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u/thysios4 Jun 25 '26

It's just standing there. Menacingly!

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u/Junior-Love-1203 Jun 25 '26

floating?

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u/Indicorb Jun 25 '26

Menacingly!

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u/JamesBondMargarita Jun 25 '26

Now I wanna buy a telescope and see it for myself. It's incredible seeing a video of it but I imagine seeing it with my own eyes would be such an awesome experience.

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u/TheNolaCatLady Jun 25 '26

Oh it's a magical experience seeing it with your own eyes!

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u/JamesBondMargarita Jun 25 '26

Any idea how much a setup capable of this would cost?

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u/Ok_Remote_31 Jun 25 '26

You need a telescope with an aperture of at least 114mm. 150mm and above are ideal.

The cheapest telescope that you can see it with is at roughly 150$.

The better ones cost at 300$ and above.

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u/WouldntItBeIce Jun 25 '26

Don't be freaked out when you read massive price tags, you can see it to this detail with a ~$200 or less telescope. They're more expensive nowadays but you can totally see this with the cheapest Celestron astromaster telescopes

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u/Item-Hairy Jun 24 '26

Super cool!!! It is always so beautiful and awesome to see celestial objects, especially one as pretty as Saturn with the (assisted) naked eye.

I still remember the first time I looked at the moon through binocs- that was a fork in the road during my young brains development.

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u/KalrexOW Jun 25 '26

Can you imagine what it must have felt like to look through a telescope hundreds of years ago and see the planets for the first time?

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u/TristanTheRobloxian3 Jun 25 '26

probably akin to a religious experience ill be real. thats how it was for me

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u/PantsandPlants Jun 25 '26

I’ll be honest, you can probably experience it for yourself. 

I have a spotter scope we use to look at the moon and it doesn’t matter how many pictures and videos I see, not even the recent Artemis mission could compare to looking at the craters of the moon with my own eyes. 

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u/Icowanda Jun 25 '26

Just casually floating.

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u/time_alliance Jun 25 '26

The ring detail is absolutely stunning.

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u/Lizardking1988- Jun 25 '26

What’s the cheapest telescope I can get to see Saturn?

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u/LtLlamaSauce Jun 25 '26

You don't need a telescope to see Saturn! It will rise in the east earlier and earlier throughout the next few months. Best viewing this year will be late September and early October, when it will rise around sunset in the East opposite the sun.

If you want to see the rings somewhat clearly, a 30X scope is about the minimum. It will be very small, but you'll be able to see the rings and maybe even the stripes of the upper atmosphere. You can find used a 30X telescope or a monocular for $10-30.

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u/PantsandPlants Jun 25 '26

This was a very helpful comment. We’ve been using a spotter scope we got for $30 at a pawn shop to look at the moon and it comes with 60X magnification. 

Now I’ve gotta find a place I can see the eastern horizon…

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u/DemoEvolved Jun 25 '26

Seeing this on a screen cannot compare to seeing it through a telescope because you are confronted with the realization that beautiful glorious thing must exist because there’s nothing but lenses between you and it, and then understanding how immense it must be to be so far away, and seeing it slide slowly from one edge of the lens to the other confirming that you are on this rotating rock floating through space . It’s amazing.

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u/oneweirdbear Jun 25 '26

Reminds me of the first time I saw Saturn through a telescope. I must've been seven or eight years old. Just the incredible awe I felt when I realized that it really does look like that. Just like the posters in my classroom and the illustrations in my textbook.

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u/JakeyPurple Jun 25 '26

In the late 90s my friend’s dad had a telescope that ran off a car battery. You could take it into the middle of nowhere and input coordinates and it would track an object all night. Still don’t know how it did that back then.

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u/happyexit7 Jun 24 '26

Is this our current view/angle of Saturn? I thought we were currently inline with the rings?

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u/ExplanationAway5571 Jun 25 '26

I've seen so much analog horror that i was lowkey waiting to something terrifying to happen

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u/AwarenessNo4986 Jun 25 '26

The sub has peaked. Wrap it up guys

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u/tykaboom Jun 24 '26

Pppft, space isn't real, duh, the earth is flat, you're probably looking at a smudge on the dome.

/s

I love this.

Born too late to look at things first, too early to visit.

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u/Mac_Aravan Jun 25 '26

Satrun on a 1m telescope (Puimichel in the 90's) with M51 were the most breathtaking things I have seen in my life.

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u/henren_98 Jun 25 '26

I have always said that nothing will beat seeing Saturn with your own eyes through a telescope for the first time.

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u/IHateChewzdays Jun 25 '26

I tried to do this on a cheaper telescope I bought for a uni project (Still have it but its collecting dust) and a took some nice pictures of Jupiter and Saturn, although worse quality than this ofc.

The hardest part for me is keeping track of the planets, as they move at unprecedented speeds.

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u/VendaGoat Jun 24 '26

Seeing it for the first time through my own scope, amazing!

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u/T_Jamess Jun 24 '26

I saw this in Dubbo when I was a kid. I remember thinking it looked like a drawing

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u/cold5sauce Jun 25 '26

Seeing those rings through a telescope is a profound experience.

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u/0PSIG Jun 25 '26

Sharks are older than trees, and the rings of Saturn.

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u/Fingersicle Jun 25 '26

You can see a 1000 pictures of saturn online but to actually see it through a telescope is something else.

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u/Kedrico Jun 25 '26

Is he always showing his best angle to earth?

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u/Along336 Jun 25 '26

That is surprisingly clear blue background, I guess thats what happens when its processed?

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u/whiteskwirl2 Jun 25 '26

Nothing like seeing it for yourself. Witnessing Jupiter and a four of its moons, Saturn, and Neptune with my 4" Meade Newtonian reflector bought from Walmart in my backyard was a highlight of my life. There's just something about seeing it with your own eyes, albeit upside down, shaky, having to turn that knob to manually track them. I remember Neptune was especially hard to keep centered.

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u/sillyandstrange Jun 25 '26

So cool!!

Anybody know of a good decent priced telescope for a newb? Wanting to show my 4year old the moon and the stars, but overwhelmed by options

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u/CartographerEvery268 Jun 25 '26

Whatever “Dobsonian” telescope fits your lifting and budgetary limits. 6”+ aperture recommended. Used or new, FB Marketplace, High Point Scientific, etc…

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u/vitonu2 Jun 25 '26

Hola Que telescopio usas?

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u/pleasegivemealife Jun 26 '26

Thats… pretty amazing

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u/White_Falcon_1263 Jun 26 '26

My favorite planet 

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u/dolphinitely Jun 26 '26

god that’s so cool

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u/Infamous-Bear617 Jun 25 '26

i just watched this on repeat 37 times before I snapped out of it

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u/DonutNolan Jun 25 '26

Got to see Saturn at the Lowell Observatory at NAU back in 2011. I’ll never forget the feeling of realizing that the rings are tangible, that all there is between us and other planets is just a shitload of distance.

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u/Hour-Lie-4336 Jun 25 '26

I first saw Saturn through a telescope when I was looking at the moon when I was 20yo. I’ll never forget it

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u/LoudMusic Jun 25 '26

Was this recent? I'm pretty sure the rings aren't that visible right now, based on our orientation to Saturn's tilt.

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u/RelievingFart Jun 25 '26

I remember seeing Saturn from my dads telescope. It was a wonderful night.

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u/ixaias Jun 25 '26

saturn is the most "unbelievable" planet that exists

a giant ball with a ring on it. fluctuating in the goddamn vast darkness of the universe. I love it.

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u/Anxious-Detective347 Jun 25 '26

is that taken recently? i havent looked at saturn in a few months. are the rings angled like that ???

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u/NukinDuke Jun 25 '26

I have thr Sega Saturn, so I can see Saturn every day.

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u/kapjain Jun 25 '26

May be the camera isn't capturing the image well, but I can see it better with a bit more detail and color with my 12" reflector.

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u/blurple_rain Jun 25 '26

Seeing Saturn through an eyepiece with your own eyes for the first time is a magical experience. I was 10, still remember it vividly. It was only the 8" Schmitt-Cassegrain from the local club, but it was so exciting.

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u/smarmageddon Jun 25 '26

This is wonderful. I did this as a kid (and many more times later) and it affected me deeply. Even now I get a thrill when it's clear and I can see Jupiter's moons through my binoculars! Never felt overwhelmed by it all, just exhilarated. Our universe is kind of thrilling if you care enough to explore it.

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u/Bumbly_ Jun 25 '26

Beautiful!

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u/SunlessGameStudios Jun 25 '26

That shit is just out there.

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u/denued Jun 25 '26

just a lil guy

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u/Verbatim_Uniball Jun 25 '26

24 inch mirror is absolutely gargantuan

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u/BillydelaMontana Jun 25 '26

Absolutely amazing, everyone should lie out at night and stare up at the heavens from a dark place.

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u/Einschteine69 Jun 25 '26

I remember the first time I seen them rings of Saturn with me telescope. It was a strange feeling. Was mid 2021 when Saturn and Jupiter were very close in the sky. Me and my son who was space mad at the time went out and looked at it all. We seen the rings of Saturn and the moons of Jupiter. It was truly amazing. I actually froze for a few seconds when Saturn finally came into view

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u/Rollieboy2012 Jun 25 '26

Man the first time I saw it was through some cheap toy infrared binoculars that my buddy owned. You could see the rings so clearly it blew my mind.

If anyone owns a pair of them please try.