Can I See the Flag On the Moon Through My Telescope

While the flag planted on the lunar surface by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin may actually be buried in moondust now, the question always comes up as to whether my telescope, the Celestron NexStar 8SE, is powerful enough to actually see artifacts leftover by the Apollo moon landing missions.
#astronomy​​​​​​ #astrophotography​​​​​​ #shorts

[@ChucksAstrophotography]

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[@jameswood7689]

its not rheir kubrick filmed the fake moon landing dont be decived

[@MrBones-be7ry]

@@jameswood7689 so you say decades ago they used cgi to make moon landing? R u that stupid?

[@treelonmusk8324]

I guess it's time to buy a teliscope as big as the earth

[@BrumeNoire]

Cool vids sir 👍🏻😃

[@MrBones-be7ry]

@@BrumeNoire no lol he basically speaks without knowing anything his telescope is bad thats why he cant see the flag

[@TurkeyZai]

I believe we should be able to see the flag in a few more years with the 5000x zoom on the Samsung Galaxy Ultra S27 Ultra Pro Max.

[@dylanlawson9097]

meh ill wait 2 more years for the superior phone manufacturer(apple) to come out with it

[@notwaffleren5488]

​@@dylanlawson9097😂 thats funny

[@kornellbrown3802]

@@dylanlawson9097 "superior phone manufacturer" lmfaooo thats a good one

[@dylanlawson9097]

@@kornellbrown3802 apple is superior, go cry about it somewhere else

[@dylanlawson9097]

@user-nj8mv4oy6i no no no i think apple is superior. androids could print money and give me the ability to fly and i still would own a iphone

[@rudyreyes393]

What if you put the telescope a little higher like on a chair.(?) Your (you're) welcome 👌

[@parkeranderson5074]

That’s so dumb as it would only make a minuscule difference; it would have to be on a tall ladder or maybe the roof. That’s why they don’t mount the satellite dishes on chairs 🤦🏻‍♂️

[@schrodingerscat2133]

@@parkeranderson5074 it’s a joke

[@schrodingerscat2133]

@@parkeranderson5074 wait are you joking? I’m confused now Edit: Just to clarify, YES I KNOW IT’S A JOKE some people seem to not under stand that.

[@parkeranderson5074]

Peripheralzx Of course it will work, it always does.

[@Soso_V]

@@peripheralzx11 lol 😂 😂😂

[@NomadHorizon]

Deep space telescopes: "I can see thousands of light-years away, but that thing*flag on the moon*, that thing terrifies me."

[@cyberdragon5074]

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[@abdullaha1730]

Not trying to look smart, but there is a difference between seeing an object from far away, compared to zooming in on it to see very little detail. finding the flag on the moon is like finding a single needle in the intire ocean

[@nuntana2]

Yes indeed but don’t forget these distant objects are typically massive.

[@l.v1473]

Hundreds of million lightyears away*

[@NomadHorizon]

@@l.v1473 eh, you get the point

[@cronus-kumo]

People be seeing the craters on the moon and think they are the size of potholes but they are actually massive

[@jojoMcq-i5w]

yes I bet they're massive❤ you would think that after all these decades we would know exactly what are in the craters? maybe one day they will go back and photographic properly when they worked out how to do it😂

[@TSVPLIN]

Potholes or people?

[@AceH.-jk5kn]

@@jojoMcq-i5w ...

[@jojoMcq-i5w]

@@AceH.-jk5kn yes?.

[@swashington942]

Skipped out on 1st grade huh

[@ray.gene.bowner]

Try disconnecting your telescope for 30 seconds then plugging it back in

[@ydavids1655]

Ok this is gold😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@LS-ti1rz]

lol, you made me h literally laugh out loud! Funny very funny

[@josephr.8622]

Lmao

[@itsmecurser6385]

overused cringe power off jokes begging for likes strike again.. smh

[@Gameboy-Unboxings]

@@itsmecurser6385 oh man, thank you! Someone I can agree with. Isn't it sad/scary that this is what people find hilarious?

[@butterchuggins5409]

Please tell me you released the moon after capturing it. That thing is for everybody. #freethemoon

[@GunnerHeatFire]

LOL

[@tuuguu1438]

LMAO

[@baggs081]

I got drunk last night and set my moon free

[@MrRamRain]

On God bro Werewolves finna be mad asf when they find out this news #freethemoon 🔗🔒🔑🪧⚪

[@goose5688]

@@MrRamRain as a member of the werewolf community I’m disgusted by this news #freethemoon #fullmoondeprived

[@mikeward2465]

It was once said, it would be like trying to spot a penny on The coast of South America from the empire state building.

[@typheran1]

If the penny was fake.

[@strongcool]

O

[@MoviesAndTvShowsAreSubjective]

@@typheran1 joking or are you that naive?

[@psion1C]

@@typheran1 your parents' marriage is fake

[@MyFunkymonkey7]

@@psion1C who said that his parents were married? Don’t worry, hopefully you won’t be a virgin forever.

[@IqbxlFit]

The amount of the clueless people in this comment section is astronomically high lol

[@abababb1153]

exactly lmao

[@smokeandmirrors482]

🙌🏿

[@BoilenHangshing-w7i]

​. That " sorry bout that" got me laughing hard 😅😅😅😂😂

[@gtamonkey3061]

It’s actually because of the render distance

[@Areyouserious1]

Only true gamers understand

[@Areyouserious1]

@Anita Patel In open world games there is a certain distance after which objects ,landscapes or NPCs don't render...that distance is called render distance..

[@Holocaustica]

"We will NOT sacrifice our frame rate for pretty pictures!" -Buzz Aldrin.

[@johannesziaether3916]

@@Areyouserious1 "every 60 seconds in Africa a minute passes"

[@Areyouserious1]

@@johannesziaether3916 😂Ah manh don't do me like that

[@user-qf1ow8wc9f]

Moon portrayed in movies and cartoons: O ° Reality: O °

[@thebeatlesandqueen8817]

No shit

[@TheL4LMusic]

Sun and moon are local and under the firmament

[@Primitive01]

@@TheL4LMusic Your brain is under the firmament, it’s 2022, time to come out

[@emi21themoon]

nah its more like ° .

[@sunnysurwade464]

o °

[@GunnerHeatFire]

I like how he's saying sorry when you literally need a telescope as big as the earth

[@jonathanmain9079]

But by linking together all the satellite dishes around the world, you could.. get close to seeing it.. they have been using that method for a long time now.. But as far as I'm aware... Most if not all the colour would be bleached out by now.. due to the sun's rays... So you would see a white flag... Also... I should add that while we are moving and that the moon is also moving.. this might make even more difficult to spot as the satellite array would need to be in the right place at the right time.... It could take years if not longer.. as the moon has it's phases...

[@finger3215]

@@jonathanmain9079 so the moon belongs to France now ?

[@SerenityScratch]

Actually, you need a telescope that’s 200 m in diameter to see it

[@TheMichaelEarl]

@@SerenityScratch 😂 I did the math and came out at about the same number. About 234 meters in diameter for a resolution of 1 meter at that distance. I was thinking " damn it'd have to be big but the size of the earth is overkill"

[@read6301]

@@TheMichaelEarl You sound smart can the Hubble space telescope see it since it's closer

[@timelymedal1131]

The reason why you can’t see the flag is because it was left in the studio. 😂

[@vijayakumari-t7n]

😂

[@trabant601e]

Bro was dropped on his head as a kid 💀

[@kouzouloskrhtikos]

😅🤣🤣🤣

[@timelymedal1131]

@@trabant601e Bro trusts our government 💀

[@trabant601e]

@@timelymedal1131 no I trust NASA 🗣️🗣️🗣️

[@Danymok]

"My disappointment is immeasurable, and my day is ruined"

[@SharonDraws]

Lol

[@5disguised]

My immeasurable is ruined and my disappointment is day.

[@DowlWatcher]

Brah

[@neonice]

You'd be even more disappointed when you see the flag and realize it has been bleached by the sun and is now white

[@qasprrr6203]

My disappointment was expected and my day is not that ruined.

[@TheGlobalGinger]

I was hella upset about this factoid until my man pulls out the “ sorry about that.” Everything is forgiven 🥺

[@GunnerHeatFire]

Same lol.

[@whatsupbroe]

Im weak 🤣🤣🤣

[@hochigaming14yearsago90]

Factoid

[@dand2760]

😂

[@Sidedlist]

What did you expect bruh

[@Schokofussel]

Meanwhile Google Maps laughing at faces being shown inside houses.

[@noemoesenpai9954]

12,OOO Kilometers Satellite from the ground vs 30 Earths Lined together across, that's how far the Moon is.

[@verenice7475]

You can fit all the other planets of our solar system between the earth and the moon

[@Schokofussel]

@@verenice7475 You're telling me that both Saturn and Neptune fit in that space? They are huge already, are you sure bout that?

[@verenice7475]

@@Schokofussel saturn's diameter is about 150 thousand km, and neptune's is about 50 thousand km, the rest of the planets aren't any bigger, while distance between the earth and the moon is about 350 thousand km

[@verenice7475]

@@Schokofussel you could also fit almost a third of the sun in that distance I think

[@domhamai]

It would help if there was a flag there to begin with

[@SparlsOfficial]

Are you dumb?

[@CantTellYou]

They should have planted a bigger flag on the moon when they didn’t land on it

[@andyparky2716]

I think Russia would have had something to say at the time if they didn't

[@MrBTBusch]

Def would help

[@robbdimarco7381]

You are part right - they aren’t there because they are stand issue government flags that first would have faded but after years of ultraviolet radiation hitting them they all have degraded to nothing. All that remains are the poles.

[@Seanjokez]

But satellites can see into my subconscious.. something’s fishy

[@Word653]

All sinned and fallen short of the Glory of God, We can’t do anything to save us and to get us to Heaven but Jesus died on the cross for our sins, was buried and rose the 3rd day. Jesus died for us so now you can have eternal life with Him but thats if your believing in the Gospel. Die without Jesus then you will be in Hell🤍

[@akronimm862]

Yeah I know I thought the same thing

[@shibbet]

@Why you look like that Jesus man calm down let him live

[@vvl3m3vv42]

No satelites, cos theres no space. Everythings under the dome.

[@therealhhent9841]

@@vvl3m3vv42 proof?

[@jaypaint4855]

So in other words: the event horizon telescope just got its next project.

[@denissavgir2881]

Lol

[@n1k32h]

Wait just a darn sec. We do have the tech to see the flag. It’s called moon crack telescope. It sees between even the tightest creeks!

[@damianp7313]

The movie ? Lol check out the channel on KZbin my next stop from. Here

[@chrismofer]

That would be incredible. there's radar telescopes that have imaged the shuttle and other satellites, would be cool to see an earth sized virtual aperture image of the apollo sites

[@cjspronz2716]

My thoughts exactly

[@Matt100space]

Optical engineer here: if you wanted to image the flag with an object space resolution of 1", you'd only need a telescope ~9km in diameter. To resolve it with Nyquist sampling (two lambda/D) you'd only need a 900meter telescope. An optical telescope the size of the earth would allow you to image something as small as 10 microns on the moon! Of course, all of this ignores atmospheric distortion, but you could make an AO system to fix that problem

[@Neo-vz8nh]

A 13.8 cm telescope can achieve 1" resolution. The apperant size of the flag is around 1 mas (mili " or mili arcsecond), which requires 138 m, but more likely around a few times that, so 500 m. Still far away that the biggest telescope is 40 m (still under construction).

[@PLEVI]

How would cameras work on the Moon, How would the film survive,

[@alexcwagner]

Thank you! I knew "size of the earth" was wrong, but I didn't want to have to dig out my old physics textbooks and try to remember how to figure it out.

[@JH-qe3fu]

@@alexcwagner Don't say it then...

[@TommasoPaba]

​@@PLEVIthe film doesn't need to breathe, so yes, it would survive :) Jokes aside, films were extensively used during the Apollo missions and there are thousands of pictures available, so the answer is yes.

[@BRNardy]

I think it's because people assume the Moon is closer and smaller than it actually is, which would lead them to think that seeing a flag there would not be too far fetched. But the Moon is REALLY far and it is freaking GIGANTIC.

[@darien2612]

Some people give off the most wholesome vibes just by how they speak.

[@vexousjr0696]

Factssss

[@ShellyBBird]

Agreed!

[@Artamusgordon]

I had no idea it would be as simple as that. Wow it’s worse than I thought.

[@lenkazdraviciv-4896]

And he aint one of em

[@hush7359]

@@lenkazdraviciv-4896 get out.

[@moxxy3565]

First time anybody said "I get this question a lot" and I believed them

[@Under-Kaoz]

You must be surrounded around a lot of untrustworthy people. Sorry to hear.

[@JWalking]

Well, his mum asked him!

[@MZhris]

@@Under-Kaoz no, it's commonly pretext for an excuse to boast, especially on social media, "I get this question alot, what's life like with a 10 incher".

[@Under-Kaoz]

@@MZhris sounds like you have to the wrong people added on social media. Sorry to hear for you too man.

[@Connor-zy6kl]

@@Under-Kaoz you seem like a doormat.

[@kirkjohnson6638]

Chuck Norris can see the individual stitches on the lunar flag with his bare eyes.

[@kentakobashi1197]

With glasses on for extremely farsighted people.

[@MrDob2009]

...and his eyes are closed

[@mjd_double-ya3904]

Maybe that's why the moon is so far away. Chuck Norris keeps staring at it!

[@codearchive3218]

when Chuck Norris breathes, it gives the flag on the moon some sway.

[@MrDob2009]

@@codearchive3218 No, you shouldn't exaggerate, it's when he farts that it does that

[@49WWFcobianfan]

Solution: Make the flag larger.

[@thomaspayne6866]

Gonna be honest. I don’t believe you’d need a telescope the size of the earth to see a flag on the moon

[@the_original_Bilb_Ono]

That does sound ridiculous, but then again.. idk.. the moon is extremely far away and youre trying to find something extremely small. You could do the calculations and figure out how large of an aperture would be needed. But ill leave that for someone else to work out. Lol

[@amps.]

Around 200 meters, or about a 1/8 of a mile in diameter to see the flag.

[@amps.]

@@the_original_Bilb_Ono 1/8 of a mile to see it

[@Lone_wolf.21]

Some 50 years ago, no one believed humans could go to moon...

[@NOTHING5423-d8w]

@@the_original_Bilb_Ono make big flag

[@sp.8632]

Have you tried squinting though? I can always see things in the distance better when I squint.

[@user-nu3sd7zb2j]

Ohh should definitely try that

[@wawfulpawt2763]

Its a smudge on the lens

[@newspaperbin6763]

I tend to stack 5 telescopes together and put on my glasses for the best effect

[@arbenravmanovski74]

😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@rickymort135]

You need glasses! You're short sighted

[@user-sg2yt6nc1z]

But the government can read your license plate from space.

[@JohnHazenhousen]

*If* that’s true, it will be using satellites in low Earth orbit. The Moon is almost 400,000 kilometres away.

[@Pikog777]

Would it surprise you to learn that low-earth orbit spy satellites are much closer to the earth than the earth is to the moon?

[@vinceabbott5438]

From a satellite sure, but those arent nearly as far away as the moon is

[@ZmannR2]

No they can’t.

[@NinerEmpire5x]

No they can not. If you have seen the Fast and Furious movie where they have a device called God's Eye where they can use anything with a camera, there you go. Keep that in mind the next time you're using your phone and looking at.......well you get the idea. If they are looking for a specific plate, all they need is an area and a justifiable reason (ie terrorism, presidential death threat and etc)

[@Turkiye958]

I’m pretty sure a billionaire will pay to see the flag

[@fancycat1893]

Just add another telescope to the telescope you have, should work like a charm😎

[@MikeFarleyHealer]

lol good one!

[@stuartgoswell1193]

Absolutely this!!

[@tuneboyz5634]

Bro!! R u ok???

[@ahmadhusaini9631]

Manipulating! This is how mankind works

[@deesnuts4993]

Telescope-ception

[@MrJeffcoley1]

I took an astronomy class in college, and one of the exercises was calculating how small an object we could see on the moon. As I recall, the smallest object we could make out was several kilometers in size.

[@soretuber847]

"Yo mama so fat we could see her on the surface of the moon."

[@tyronedelaney174]

@@soretuber847 your mama genes is so flawed she made you.

[@pinoyako9830]

Can you send me your formula and your solution? Thanks

[@dannydiaz5675]

@@pinoyako9830 I know right, would love to see that formula!

[@stephenfranklin6980]

Yeah depends on the telescope. Even hubble wouldn't be able to resolve much less than 200m

[@conquerunderstanding7517]

This guy leaves cookies and milk for Santa

[@KrisMinnear]

I would also if Santa left me an 8" telescope.

[@vwmikeyouhoo]

Sounds like you need a drool rag.

[@Fermistine]

@@KrisMinnear 8" that would be small one

[@Evian1990]

😂😂😂😂

[@NorthTonawanda1]

I genuinely laughed out loud on that comment.

[@cass77788]

will never believe we went to the moon back in the 60s

[@badsabre5917]

Good for you😂

[@Mushielabs]

Ignorance is bliss huh

[@scottbreseke716]

We went 5 times.

[@Frommarsss]

@@scottbreseke716 who told you that

[@scottbreseke716]

@@Frommarsss The internet had this to say: "There were six crewed landings between 1969 and 1972, and numerous uncrewed landings. All crewed missions to the Moon were conducted by the Apollo program, with the last departing the lunar surface in December 1972."

[@magnumopus1628]

Note to self: we need a earth size flag for the next moon landing.

[@ericnelson3102]

Bold of you to assume we’ve been to the moon

[@magnumopus1628]

@@ericnelson3102 Yeah, I'm pretty bold. Actually, bold and pretty. 😎

[@magnumopus1628]

@@ericnelson3102 But yeah, all jokes aside, it's even bolder to assume that we haven't been on the moon.

[@AwesomeBlackDude]

Right

[@WetaMantis]

@@ericnelson3102 And you're pretty dumb to deny it.

[@lavasharkandboygirl9716]

You’re on a Tim from grand illusions level of wholesome

[@uncannyvalley2350]

He's a total plumbus

[@paths5881]

I love that guy (NoHomo)

[@duckck8024]

That’s what I was gonna say

[@GunnerHeatFire]

true lol

[@spongebobby188]

"Sorry about that"...that was a cool and humble ending! 👍

[@johnwayne3085]

look up Ulilila on YT and tell YT it's not him.

[@ljfpsgaming]

Its okey... No worries... We understand

[@falseusername]

Actually, even with telescopes as big, as earth, theres difraction limit

[@thecarswede]

"Every 60 seconds in africa, a minute passes"

[@SubieNinja]

someone should DO something

[@bumpygarage4291]

Oh the humanity!

[@garrimic3]

Racist 😂

[@ITANIMULLI-813]

Dude...why you put this knowledge on us!! The implications of this....... I can't carry around the burden of knowing this!!

[@rileybuske5542]

no one would be alive then in africa

[@OneIdeaTooMany]

You've got to turn off the "Fog of War" setting on your telescope first. Should be in the settings menu somewhere.

[@KatGanis]

😂

[@brassmule]

It's your move, Commander.

[@ratherbeonthemoon]

If you know you know!! There's a big war on the moon going on right now.

[@Fckuf4cku]

The "sorry about that" completely caught me off guard

[@good_teanice_house6789]

My first instinct was "awe its okay buddy"

[@UgurDilbaz]

To see the flag on the moon you need a telescope with a diameter of 182 meters

[@january10005]

Why dont find the rover?

[@UgurDilbaz]

​@@january10005i meant you can't see the flag too if you don't have a big telescope

[@lilacdoe7945]

It's basically the equivalent of seeing a grain of rice on the beach from the top of a tall skyscraper 25-miles away with a pair of binoculars. Even if you know where to look, you won't find it.

[@tonydai782]

@RC_car:v2 It would be bleached by the Sun’s rays anyways

[@dislikebutton966]

@RC_car:v2 its bs

[@lilacdoe7945]

@RC_car:v2 Did you mean millions of miles/kms? Neptune is only 3.8 billion miles from Earth (339 light-minutes or just under 6hrs). Additional considerations: 1) the flag on the Moon is tiny and even if we did have a big enough telescope on Earth, the image would be lost due to atmospheric distortions. 2) many of the visual images of Neptune we still use is from the Voyager which did a flyby so we got very close 3) Neptune is appx 84 million times larger for every mile of distance from Earth than the flag on the moon. That obviously doesn't make it 84 million times easier to see, but a certain resolution photo of Neptune will be significantly easier to get than the flag, even ignoring points 1 and 2. Where #3 figures came from... Neptune has a radius of 15,387mi which gives it a 1-sided surface area of 1.9 trillion meters (not accurate due to the spherical shape, but close enough). This means Neptune has a visual area of appx 506m for every mile of distance from Earth. Meanwhile, the flag has a 1-sided surface area of 1.4m and is 225,623mi at its closest. Thus, the flag has a visual area of appx 0.000006m for every 1mi of distance from Earth.

[@lilacdoe7945]

@RC_car:v2 my bad, misunderstood your original comment, thought it was more like "if we can take pictures of Neptune [then] we should be able to..."

[@lilacdoe7945]

@RC_car:v2 that's interesting... would it be dust covered? I know it'll be washed out from solar radiation, but since the Moon has no atmosphere, the only "wind" is from the Sun. Hopefully someone more knowledgeable than me knows if 52yrs is sufficient or if it'd take millenia. Anyways, cheers and well wishes ✌🏼

[@chadyoung2894]

oddly enough I'm currently building a telescope the size of the earth just to see the flag

[@kentakobashi1197]

Amazing, me too! I wonder when we collide.

[@jaydunstan1618]

Hahahaha! Can it find my wife's well soiled panties?

[@jaydunstan1618]

@@kentakobashi1197 Can you help me find my wife's well soiled panties?

[@AtomicFrog77]

@@kentakobashi1197 lmao

[@the_kombinator]

Chump, I'm building a rocket ship out of an old Hyundai to just get there myself. How hard can it be? If I get lucky, I can trade it in for a Tesla while I'm up there.

[@gouravkumarsingh7482]

We just have to increase the render distance, but be careful as it may fry your telescope.....Do it at your own risk

[@valentinperezcerutti7336]

Time to overclock it!

[@rorschacht8478]

@@valentinperezcerutti7336 And water cooling with a custom EK block. Ggez telescope mustard race.

[@thatdude9588]

@@rorschacht8478 *vodka cooling*

[@Vignana_Pradarshana]

What do you mean by render distance?

[@gouravkumarsingh7482]

@@Vignana_Pradarshana its a minecraft joke...its like you can increase the visibility

[@LEADandBRICKS]

his voice is so nice, i even said “it’s okay” when he said “sorry about that!”

[@hafizhan8654]

same 😭😭

[@zeroobuichi3256]

Honestly yeah. Very kind sounding person

[@OFFICER.]

Sounds like he needs to cough into a handkerchief

[@OFFICER.]

Then you will hear Morgan freeman narrating

[@mmmeli6296]

Same, he sounds like a caring granpa

[@rosaluks644]

about 100m in diameter plus adaptive optics may get you to see the flag. The earth size telescope is a huge overstatement

[@ajm5007]

No optical telescope is EVER going to be capable of rendering an object that small at this distance through the earth's atmosphere in a way that a human can recognize. It's simply not possible to constructed lenses or mirrors of the size and precision required. The largest lenses and mirrors ever constructed wouldn't even render such a thing as a DOT visible to a human, let alone an image that can be recognized as a flag.

[@y2ksw1]

It takes far less is the lenses and the optical equipment is made for focussing on small objects.

[@SwrveYT]

I believe in some cases you’re able to see the reflections of the Mirrors that were placed on the moon. That’s the only artefact you can see

[@SwrveYT]

@Mathew Ajo I think the main reason for the mirrors was because they theorised that the moon is moving away from the earth. So now they use those mirrors to measure how fast per year

[@idontcare7961]

@Mathew Ajo Thats what you are told, and you have no evidence to back up your statements.

[@idontcare7961]

@Mathew Ajo Yes majority of stuff we were all taught are just lies. Its not visible because its not there, moon is not terra firma.

[@oscarwinchester7812]

@@idontcare7961 "Stop it. Get some help"

[@idontcare7961]

@@oscarwinchester7812 ?

[@williamthecoolboy]

*Me, An Intellectual: *Zooms Into The Image**

[@JoseRodriguez-qe7cl]

🤣🤣

[@adrock889]

Simply built different

[@ryantpritchett2814]

Wow... you win at life.

[@CrazyBrick30]

Enhance... *ENHANCE...* -CSI Miami

[@LV-1969]

I have 19 telescopes taped together. It's so powerful I can literally see myself being full of crap...

[@VIPER276]

😂💀

[@LogicalNiko]

It's actually a thing. It is called optical telescope interferometry. You are limited to selecting specific frequencies as you have to literally tune the distance between the telescopes so the individual waves of light line up to boost each other. It's much easier to do in radio or digitally now.

[@edonveil9887]

I guess you are focused on Uranus.

[@itzyuzuruclips]

​@@edonveil9887fr

[@LucaBrasi0]

I need only mirror for that.

[@YogsenForfoth]

The way he says “sorry bout that” at the end had me in stitches. 😂😂

[@AyAyCaptain]

ahahah

[@PipMane]

It's all fake anyways

[@watercarepro9610]

I listened again after reading your comment, as soon as I heard it, I started laughing out loud in a quiet waiting room, everyone turned to look at me. Hahaha

[@robertanthonycarroll7133]

@@PipMane WHAT IS FAKE

[@RaccoonNation]

@@robertanthonycarroll7133 the free Masonic bullshit system we are all indoctrinated into

[@RaimaNd]

People who ask this question really don't understand the scale of the universe.

[@joez8914]

And it’s up to people like you, who understand this, to educate them.

[@Ramasani-ur6dr]

**James webb casually captures evidence of life light years away**

[@Deleted11100]

Works a totally different way. Collects infrared light gathered far out in the universe. Galaxies are much bigger and brighter than a pole on the moon.

[@TheCraigy83]

@@Deleted11100 And a light year is how far!? 6 billion mi ?

[@ZedNebuloid]

JWST just found elements for possible life in the atmosphere using spectroscopy.

[@Ramasani-ur6dr]

i was just joking not taking into account of the actual stuff

[@abbottmd]

yep, everytime i hear some report about "possible exoplanet with life" and I try to guess whether it was based off 1,2, or 3 pixels of data

[@Dermisc]

According to the diffraction limit equation, you need a telescope with an objective lens diameter of 516 meters to resolve 0.5m objects from 384,400km away. If you want to see the stripes on an American flag, you are probably looking at 15x that lens size. Not quite the size of the planet, but bigger than most people would be able to afford. If you could afford that, you may as well pay SpaceX to send a moon satellite to take some pictures. Better yet, doesn't China already have a satellite in orbit of the moon from the Chang'e 4 mission? Maybe ask the CNSA to snap a picture.

[@leprechaunbutreallyjustamidget]

Literally impossible to build an optical telescope even a quarter that size though

[@avoiceinthewilderness5766]

🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂👌

[@SilverloafCustomRazors]

No matter how big the telescope is, you still can't see Uranus....

[@wisdom-for-life]

If you use another mirror you can!

[@SilverloafCustomRazors]

@@wisdom-for-life "Put the mirror down, it's not worth it!" 😄

[@fep_ptcp883]

Only the proctologist can see it

[@wisdom-for-life]

@@SilverloafCustomRazors It is a bit scary the first time :DDD

[@SilverloafCustomRazors]

@@wisdom-for-life 😄

[@YdnarLah37]

It's amazing how many people have little to no concept of the size and distance of things,

[@TheOriginalf00lishmortal]

The fact that a lot of people ask that question shows how little people actually understand distance and size

[@kildidar]

nah bro. we just overestimate the power of science. when you hear something like "we can see back in time until right after the big bang" you'd think we'd be able to see the flag on the moon

[@martinkozle]

@@kildidarBut capturing really faint microwave radiation in every direction in the sky has nothing to do with capturing visible light from a really small object really far away. There are telescopes optimized for different scientific tasks, some are easier, some are harder to accomplish.

[@TheOriginalf00lishmortal]

Fair point. I think, also, that lacking atmosphere, clouds, trees, etc makes people perceive the moon as tiny enough to be able to see something that, in comparison, is like a speck of dust on a basketball. I don't fault people for it. It's just wild to think that a majority of people view things very basically and almost 2D'ish. @@kildidar

[@FearDaReaper]

Not everyone is going to have vast knowledge on distance and size tho are they

[@janradtke8318]

@@kildidarYou couldn‘t have confirmed the original comment in a better way.

[@aerofart]

No, you cannot see the flag on the moon. Your telescope (and all terrestrial telescopes, even the largest) have diffraction limits well below the angular separation needed to see a flag on the moon - and even if your telescope was big enough, you would probably be limited by seeing (atmospheric) conditions.

[@tomm3532]

Finally a comment written by someone with a brain

[@BenDover-ur4hm]

That’s like asking, “Can you see astronauts walking on the moon?” 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@savage-kc1nz]

🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕

[@pluto8404]

Satellites can see humans walking on the earth.

[@ferrumignis]

@@pluto8404 A reconnaissance satellite is about 2400 times closer to the earth than the moon is.

[@alexw1953]

@@pluto8404 satellites orbit the Earth close as hell the moon is so far back it almost gets pulled out of our orbit every so million years

[@lucabrown1094]

THE FLAG IS LONG GONE BECAUSE THEY BURNED IT WHEN LEAVING STUPID DIPS

[@Loadstamler]

If the moon landing didn't happen, the usa would refuse to revisit the site even though it would peak interest in the space program

[@nealthomson9505]

The moon is actually much bigger than what the average person imagines. People dont realise that there are mountains and ravines as big as those on planet earth on the moon. Like Kilimanjaro and Everest.

[@maxfl0yd]

when i was a kid i thought the moon was so small you would be able to walk around the whole planet casually in an hour or so

[@grantsypants4743]

It’s 27% of earth.

[@kapitanbach7411]

@@maxfl0yd Did you just.. call the moon a planet.

[@randyg.7940]

@@maxfl0yd like the size of a basketball i think

[@erich8074]

And yet the moon footage shows none of that.

[@Am_Yeff]

Fun fact: Faking the moon landing would've been harder than actually going there, Corridor has a good video on it that debunks anyone who says we never went there Also in 2024-2030 the first Artemis missions will bring us back to the moon, so prepare for some sweet orbital photography of the landing sites because apparently if the picture is taken by a sattelite you landing deniers don't believe it

[@chewypennington2326]

Right? Like space, the sky is the absolute limit of how far our imagination can go. I can get far out with my CGI too. My main inspiration actually comes from Robert Simmons. What did he say? "It is photoshopped... But it's, it's... It has to be." I also can't wait to see illustrations from the moon during those years. Because I'm sure it was a long painful process to build that technology to do so again. But hopefully if the technology was to be destroyed, maybe we could save just one iota of evidence left? Because they scrubbed it clean last time. Not one person knew not one thing about anything. . . But if we did, I'd go back to the moon in a nanosecond. That's how fast Don Petit would go anyways.

[@kevinbecerson1546]

Fake moon rocks

[@Am_Yeff]

@@kevinbecerson1546 what?

[@kevinbecerson1546]

@Farhan Dany Fachrullah third world cockroach

[@HaagseDannyKalf]

@@kevinbecerson1546 Try not to infect others with your ignorance please.

[@Titantitan001]

People honestly think we can see into space like that. People think we can see all the planets in great details and even other galaxies. The school system really failed a lot of people when it came to sciences. Science class became “here are the accepted theories we treat as fact” never encouraging any of the students to one day become great minds. Which is a shame.

[@SuperRadAttack]

Agreed.

[@Noneyabiz001]

You realize that high school science is just to give you a basic introduction to science right? Really, that’s most everything in high school.

[@SuperRadAttack]

@Human Unknown Yeah, no shit we can see the incredibly bright, unimaginably large formations of dust and hundreds of billions of stars. Doesn't mean we can just zoom in to see the wart on a frogs ass when looking at Jupiter. It's not about trust, it's about how the universe works lmao

[@lau6438]

@Human Unknown Dumb comment.

[@BoilenHangshing-w7i]

That "sorry about that" hits different

[@provideowatcher]

The colors have wiped by now, so it’s a French Flag now (all white)

[@harrynelson9203]

🤣👌🏻 the way they been acting recently it wont be the only one

[@buckfizzard291]

Lmaooo

[@huskytail]

No, that's the flag you waved in Vietnam. And it's seems to be reusable 😉

[@ChaoticBattleCamel]

@@huskytail Lmao France gave it to us on the way out, Vietnam being theirs and all.

[@ukmedicfrcs]

Don't say that! Now the loons on the left are going to claim racism.

[@TandJgaming]

He says “sorry about that” like the laws of physics are his fault. It’s all good my man lol.

[@abrahamnaous]

How the hell does the laws of physics apply to optics?

[@shosty575]

@@abrahamnaous I hope this is a joke. Firstly, optics is a branch of physics. Also every phenomenon in the universe is governed by laws of physics.

[@TandJgaming]

@@abrahamnaous look up the definition of “Optics”

[@abrahamnaous]

Geez am I in trouble if it’s not a joke, damn haha

[@dawniebug784]

But if we can see a shit ton further than the moon, I'm pretty sure we have a telescope capable of capturing the moon already

[@flaviusbogdan2256]

Theoretically speaking, couldn’t we launch a satellite around the moon that could capture ground images in more decent resolution?

[@NazmusLabs]

yes

[@gplor5259]

Why would we do that?

[@etonakoxD]

@@gplor5259 why did we send people to the moon?

[@danmedeiros6676]

@@etonakoxD we didn't that was directed by Stanley Kubrick

[@oblivionshadow9453]

@@etonakoxD for political prestige during the cold war.

[@jsmith0924]

NASA’s LRO imaged all the landing sites a couple of years ago. They could see the LM, tracks from rovers and many other objects left behind. If I remember correctly, a couple of photos showed the flag or its shadow.

[@DamnedConservative]

If that telescope is 8 inches then I need to update my tinder profile

[@RayleighCriterion]

The diameter is 8 inches

[@grimeyhonkyracing3938]

​@@RayleighCriterionthat's what she said

[@RayleighCriterion]

@@grimeyhonkyracing3938 I saw a Bumble profile that a 33 year old woman said to swipe left unless 6 foot tall, 7 figures and 8 inches.

[@Chewy_GarageBandDad]

DUUUUUUUDE how does this not have more likes... that's fucking hilarious. I needed that laugh this morning.

[@studio-flash]

Just like the guy saying to his girlfriend, whilst holding his hands about 12 inches apart…...” yes love that’s 6 inches definitely “.🙄

[@justinbean971]

Hubble out here taking pictures of things lightyears away and this guy thinks we would need a planet sized telescope

[@NatsumeKonno]

Because hubble is tuned for distance. Why you think your cellphone has 3 or more cameras.

[@rossbrumby1957]

Lightyears away and it can only tell you that theres a planet there- no detail of cloud cover or oceans. It can see only points of light at that distance.

[@aiden007981]

Taking pictures of space, hundreds of thousand miles of it, with stars and reflections to add a bit of light, vs taking a picture of a flag zoomed all the way in with just the few meters of moon around it to light it up? Aside from low orbit satellites have you ever seen a flag on earth from the moon?

[@ufo_grey]

Its a radio telescope for a start not optical.

[@10n0]

Hubble takes pictures of supermassive structures with trillions of times the luminosity of our sun.

[@-iceraptor-]

The ever so simple "Sorry bout that" at the end.. great

[@pelasgeuspelasgeus4634]

You will never see that flag on the moon because it's not there...

[@Jetstreamhustla]

Fly me to the moon in theaters now 😂

[@ItsMeConnor3]

You will never see the brain in your head because it’s not there…

[@toledojeeper2932]

Actually several countries have sent up lunar orbiters that showed pictures of the flag .

[@ValidT]

@@toledojeeper2932 yeah this guy is full of crap lol many telescopes we have in space could see the flag

[@toledojeeper2932]

@@ValidT ..Lunar orbiters get much closer to the moons surface than any scope can . Even with high image resolution the flag is barely visible in pictures from the orbiters . There is no scope that can see the flag .

[@lucky43113]

All you need is a good imagination to see the flag on the moon.

[@yoteslaya7296]

and dont forget your tinfoil hat...oh wait...i see you're already wearing one

[@CosmicLogic-ts5vr]

@@yoteslaya7296 Never landed on the moon

[@yoteslaya7296]

@@CosmicLogic-ts5vr proof?

[@CosmicLogic-ts5vr]

@@yoteslaya7296 proof? Why haven’t we gone back? We send tons of useless expensive trash into space but haven’t repeated this? Why haven’t countries come together and sent another mission up then?

[@yoteslaya7296]

@@CosmicLogic-ts5vr Just because we havent gone back and made a permanent presence doesnt mean the original moon landing wasnt real. You suffer from cognitive dissonance my friend

[@chunheiso5806]

This is also assuming the flag hasn't been bleached white by the sun, which it probably already has

[@wastedtalent1625]

It has been, I believe many of them are destroyed from the UV damage. There are retro reflectors that astronauts put up there to bpuce light back to earth. I wonder if he could find a way to see something looking at those

[@averageecho4919]

Buzz Aldrin also reportedly saw the flag blown away as they left the moon

[@awesome5fire761]

@@averageecho4919 nah he didn’t, there’s still pictures of it there

[@TollyKipper]

Great, now it looks like the French have been there.

[@suicune266]

@@TollyKipper thanks god very cool

[@adithyaks8584]

Flag must be present in a movie studio.

[@no1science]

😂

[@kristian5747]

😂😂😂😂

[@theshamanarchist5441]

Shepperton Studios, London, England, 1967. Courtesy of Stanley Kubrick.

[@agahustle]

Yes 👍

[@justdust7964]

Exactly 💯 %

[@n300zx931]

Most people have no idea how far away the moon actually is from the Earth

[@parlorgemz2405]

Yea we do, and that’s how we know they never went 😂

[@n300zx931]

@@parlorgemz2405 would be funny if you were right, but other countries were tracking the moon landing. Not just us. They have no incentive to keep quiet if it was faked. Fact is, Russia was getting very close themselves and saw that we just made it first.

[@alexskillz45]

😂

[@TBThatGuy]

@@n300zx931😂

[@sawdust4]

KZbin: "Can I see the flag on the moon?" Me: Wow this looks interesting KZbin: "no" Me: oh 😂😂😂💀

[@dimitritripanova2595]

Because they didn't go to the moon, they've never even left the firmament, you were lied to

[@yes.6238]

@@dimitritripanova2595 💀

[@arson_comitter3727]

@@dimitritripanova2595 Omg, bro

[@James-bw7rk]

@@dimitritripanova2595 Another know nothing. It's called "resolution".

[@kelvin4975]

@@dimitritripanova2595 I’ve done research and you are correct. They never even left earth

[@patricias333]

Still want to know how we lived streamed from the moon back then, but couldn't get rabbit ears to get all the channels in clear.

[@weaponized_toaster]

because the tvs werent high res LOL that has nothing too do with the radiowaves

[@jamesbrincefield9879]

This kind of thinking is really harmful and probably racist. Any time you have the urge to question something I recommend scrolling through TikTok for at least 4 minutes until the urge subsides.

[@weaponized_toaster]

@@jamesbrincefield9879 what?

[@klausschwab11]

@@weaponized_toasterJames is a bot, or a useful hive mind drone. Same difference I suppose.

[@weaponized_toaster]

@@klausschwab11 I think he's being ironic

[@trm4life]

Funny how they want to deny its existence and our technology, while holding an 8 core super computer, with touch screen, 4k video, video calling, wireless internet, and more gaming capability than a pc in the early 2000s....

[@RipsawEV_2]

That 'sorry about that' sounded so innocent and humble 🥺

[@NazmusLabs]

Masha’Allah! So true 🥺

[@theprobe9752]

🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺

[@Jus4fun456]

Warning reading 90% of these comments may lower your IQ.

[@effedrien]

Ok I will stop after reading 89%, thanks for the warning.

[@BrandonWilliams-bk1ij]

​@@effedrienyou'll forget how to read before you even get close, these comments are turning my brain to mush

[@doriangray1935]

too late, I have 40 IQ now

[@willyG26YT]

well I felt my IQ was higher just by reading these fools

[@dannythompson1948]

Buddy, I'm an engineer. I can absolutely assure you that the moon landing may have been faked... the only reason I'm not 1000% convinced that it was, is the conspiracy theory.. the theory that sooooo many people would have to keep the secret for this to work. It really makes no sense at all that we went to the moon 6 times then decided we have learned all we can, and stopped going..

[@jwphotography8780]

That felt like a reality check of how big the moon and planets really are

[@cryptoknight4742]

And also this flag 🧐

[@CarlosHernandez-bp4ul]

Don't apologize, start building the telescope!

[@dracorosso7129]

get your bread up!

[@itikutok6568]

I'm more interested in how they managed to go through the Van Allen radiation belt and lived to talk about it.

[@st0rmforce]

They avoided one by taking a high trajectory and passed through the other at high speed to minimise time in the belt. This question has now been answered a billion and one times

[@DickRileyTheConquistador]

​@@st0rmforceMeanwhile nasa claims passing thru VAB is a problem they are working on in these recent times. And the nasa simps buy it.

[@hermitthefrog8951]

They didn't.

[@andysmith1996]

If you were really interested, you would have looked up the answer yourself. What you really mean is you want to appear edgy and superior by repeating some bullshit conspiracy you heard. But ask yourself this: if Nasa was laying about the moon landing, why would they have told anyone about the Van Allen belts anyway?

[@Craig-fl8jj]

​@@st0rmforcereally? I didn't think they knew about the radiation until after they went to the moon.

[@FrodosGardener]

Was it recently said that JWST would be able to distinguish two headlights of a car on the moon? Excited about that scope!

[@mobiah]

Dec 18, launch

[@lilfr4nkie]

@@mobiah was suppose to launch in 2007 originally, been waiting for its launch for so long I gave up hope, it will get delayed yet again.

[@mobiah]

@@lilfr4nkie already in french Guiana. This time it's for sure. Set reminder.

[@lilfr4nkie]

@@mobiah I hope you’re right my friend

[@dbe_manny]

Are there a lot of cars driving around on the moon?

[@FirstNameLastName-fu8ml]

Those craters on the moons are as wide as 60k feet and they even seem rather tiny, imagine trying to spot a flag that's the size of an ant compared to all those around it.

[@billross9132]

I think ppl ask the flag question cause we all lose sense of scale as there's nothing were familiar with on moon compared to earth in terms of size

[@hop-skip-ouch8798]

First time I've heard someone mention distances on the moon in feet.

[@Mason-is4mr]

Technology can do it

[@casachica]

@@Mason-is4mr bro we can't do it YET, did you even watch the video lol

[@Goji_Bear]

Surely no one is that stupid to think you would be able to see the flag? 💀

[@DanielWippichPhotography]

Surely no one is that stupid to think there was an actual moon landing

[@im_a_car_lover]

bc it was​@@DanielWippichPhotography

[@user-zw8hb7zm5u]

I still want to know how they sent live videos from the moon landing, and I cant get a phone signal driving 6 miles to work

[@JohnHazenhousen]

I presume your phone isn’t using its own dedicated global network of powerful radio telescopes.

[@chappiestclair1821]

It’s called the S-band transponder Learn how to read

[@user-zw8hb7zm5u]

@chappiestclair1821 it's called a load of shit, learn how to have a joke

[@MrRico729671]

​@@user-zw8hb7zm5uwere u joking or were u serious though lol

[@ajm5007]

There's a whole lot of stuff between you and the nearest cell tower. We have a pretty unobstructed line-of-sight to the moon. It's not the distance that's a problem here on earth; it's all the STUFF blocking the signals. Mountains, trees, buildings, the curvature of the earth itself. All that gets in the way. From here to the moon is a straight shot with nothing but the moon itself to get in the way.

[@jameskincaid2009]

Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has gotten some amazing pictures. Always enjoyed your videos chuck! Keep it up

[@cjgamer2140]

It's amazing how tough tinfoil used to be.

[@leftmono1016]

Less amazing when you understand the very low forces being applied to it.

[@greenwave819]

they layered it a few times!

[@Chadlcarroll]

Amazing how people wear so much on their heads now

[@JasonWW2000]

Are you referring to Mylar?

[@magnumpi8097]

The 3 villains from Superman 2 still have that flag ;0)

[@mywifesboyfriend5741]

Well, Nuclear Man tried knocking it down too, but Superman took care of that!

[@LoudPipesSavesLives]

A speck on the moon is the size of Texas

[@MrSummitville]

The highest resolution of the moon, from the earth, is roughly 25' x 25' per pixel. Still not enough resolution.

[@gaxiola55]

James web telescope: “ hold my beer “

[@elijahsmall5873]

It's not calibrated for seeing things up close also a flag on the Moon is like finding a needle in a haystack.

[@jeremyharsh]

You mean sofia

[@spongebong-squarebeugs3485]

Incorrect 🥴

[@jeremyharsh]

@@elijahsmall5873 finding a flag is? They say they bounce a laser of reflectors they left on the moon and they know because they push a button and a box buzzes when sent and received. Totally ridiculous

[@elijahsmall5873]

@@jeremyharsh Sending and receiving a signal that bounced off reflectors left on the Moon isn't the same thing as trying to see the flag on the Moon. A lazer is just light and it gets aimed at the moon, bounces back, and is received and recorded by instruments here on Earth. The flag on the Moon is just too freaking small to see with cameras and telescopes here on Earth. I don't understand why that's so hard to comprehend. I can guarantee you if I were to show you a picture of a rainforest you wouldn't be able to pick out every ant in the photo. Why? Because they're just too small to see. Our eyes can't resolve something that small and the same applies to the flag on the Moon.

[@hypermoose5794]

“I’m really upset about this I need to talk to your manager!” 👩🏼

[@Gobig4l1f3]

We got telescopes that can see in "space" but security cameras that can't identify a criminal.

[@dereklea1183]

There are security cameras at the world's most secure office building that can't capture video evidence of an "airplane" striking it. I wholeheartedly believe security cameras can't identify a criminal after seeing the one, and only, video of the "airplane" hitting the Pentagon. Even the security cameras of the businesses in the immediate vicinity couldn't capture the evidence either. BTW, the video showing the "airplane" striking the Pentagon on "September 11, 2001" was recorded (date/time stamped) on September 10, 2001.

[@prasaite]

Just pay 10 bilions dolars for single scurity camera (costs of Webb telescope) and you solve that problem

[@spicysnowman8886]

Same reason we have cars that can go 300 mph and be street legal, but we also have terrible mitsubishis.

[@Poignant_Ritual]

You don't have to put "space" in quotes. I look through telescopes a few times a month, trust that space is actually out there lmao. The internet has made people proud to be idiots.

[@oan1249]

try capturing 4 months of continuous footage at a decent quality and then storing it for cheap

[@boss-de-boss2012]

the flag is no more intact because it was exposed to solar radiation and extreme temperature fluctuations, so that lead to degradation.

[@ffauzan7408]

With the largest telescopes on earth, it couldn't see something that small. THAT WHAT SHE SAID

[@bouncingshot]

PAHAHAHAHAH - Michael Scott

[@pearlsammo1638]

Stanley Kubrick was a genius.

[@anteupbeats]

Eyes wide shut

[@thatdude9588]

@No. Body stfu

[@just__jess2]

@Common Sense Realist NASA in Hebrew means deception.... NASA is owned and operated by the Elite.... NASA was created by the Nazis.... NASA lies 💯 #doyourownresearch #thinkforyourself 🗝🧠

[@ĦDツ亗]

@@just__jess2 is this some kind of joke ?

[@indoorgangster]

@@just__jess2 you must be from America.

[@mattpburgess]

More appropriate title: “Why you can’t use a telescope to see the flag on the moon”

[@Hughjanus720]

You can if it's 234m in diameter

[@neilurwin9670]

Your Right.

[@mikemcleroy8265]

Answer- Because there’s not one there. 😉

[@darylingoteborg3178]

I know a few flat earthers and even if you could see it with a telescope they’d find a way to say it’s fake

[@neilurwin9670]

@@darylingoteborg3178 Your Right.

[@llllllllIIIIIIIIIII]

Knowing that there is satellites above your head that can read the ingredients on your chewing gum box.

[@narwhalocean791]

GPS satellites are 20 000 km up in the air. spy satellites are even closer to earth, in the low earth orbit, only about 160km to 2000km above ground. compare that to the distance from earth to the moon, which is 384,400 km

[@robertryan3639]

I remember seeing on TV a show called Salvage 1 that they went to the moon and brought all the junk back to be recycled. It starred Andy Griffith in 1979 so the flag is no loner there.

[@jdraven0890]

I loved that show - think it was on only one season though

[@cajunrcfamily6188]

I remember that show!!

[@Porvirsocios]

I memba

[@1STLAR2147]

Check the Sanford and Sons scrap yard. Has to be there somewhere! 🥴