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Moon Eclipses Saturn

Image Credit & Copyright: Pau Montplet Sanz

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APOD: 2024 August 27 – Moon Eclipses Saturn

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T.J. Crowder
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The moon and Saturn are in different scales in that montage, though, right?
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Andy Fletcher
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To give an idea of size and distance the moon is currently 384400Km away and Saturn 1297 million Km away making it 3375 times further away than the moon and therefore 3375 times smaller than it would be at the same distance as the moon.

Saturn is huge!

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