A re-edited version of this video is now available: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Z9aoZd2WqM3aqGw.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.

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!

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.

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 :)

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!

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. :-)

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...

I’m addicted to these videos thank you!

Excellent subject and great presentation. Many thanks

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.

Simply amazing this video! Good presenter and script.

My favorite video of KZfaq... Liked and subscribed

Wasn't expecting that. Excellent video, and very interesting!

Excellent video and series. Watching in July 2021!

Very nice video with a very eloquent and clear presenter. Thanks!

Simply brilliant! Thank you

An excellent Video. Well done A&NC. Very well done Robert.

Wonderfully made video.. thank you Sir.

What a knowledgeable Guy you are and a fantastic channel! Totally hooked!

Thank you for the great info. I learned a lot, thanks.

Great video, fun and very informative. Well done!

You guys are great, I have watched loads of your vids and they have really helped me out a lot with my telescope

BBC / ITV here's a guy that needs signing up!! Great video, excellent presentation and very engaging, I learned a lot Andy..

hello from Des Moines Iowa!!! great vid.

This was a most wonderful video. Thank you. 👍

Delightful and instructive!

Great video, thanks for uploading!

Cracking good and Informative Vid !!! :)

Really nice video. Thanks for that. I really wish I had a clear sky at the moment.

Thanks Robert for another excellent informative video!

Amazing , blown my mind ,thank you !

Awesome video. I watched the end 3 times :)

Your voice is soothing. I subscribed

Love your clear explanations Sir

Fascinating, thanks.

Thanks for the video... Great way to show the size and distance.

Amazing, Im gonna take a proper look at the Moon, thanks.

love it ,love it , keep doing them great videos !!!

Very educational & oh so interesting. Keep up the good work.

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.

Outstanding video!

Amazing content. I love your vids!

What an excellent video. You are a great presenter.

brilliant, graphic and usefriendly explanation.. well done.

Epic. What a wonderful channel

Thanks! I had no idea that the moon changed in apparent size like that. Cool!

beautiful and clever way to explain the whole thing thanks a lot

Good story teller, thanks.. brilliant entertainment !! You've sold it to me !!

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

Great video again! Thought it would be at least 1 meter, considering the size of the earth and moon. Very interesting!!

Wow this is now my go to moon video

So glad I found this dude.

Mind blowing video, thanks!.

awesome info Thank You .

most impressed. Well done you!

Excellent... cheers team

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.

Excellent video and very informative.

Thanks very professional. Great ending. Regards from North Wales

I could listen to this guy for hours

Great video, very informative and well presented

Thanks for mentioning Ilford...my old stamping ground...lol..😂😂

Very nice and diferent way to teach.

Well done guys great video.

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

Unexpected nice.

Very interesting.You should write books about astromony,you make it so easy to understand.Thanks again for posting.

Watch out, Sir Patrick, you have competition. Most excellent.

3:05 is real estate the best choice of words lollll

What is that desktop planetary display that you rotated called? And where can I purchase one for my office?

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..

Excellent video.

You are blowing my mind

SO AWESOME

Very enjoyable!

Very nice video, very good work guys

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

Very interesting and professional presentation.

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

Excellent video

Very interesting.

I will always bear in mind:)

Loved the chasing the earth scene

Great video

I paused the video to measure. Good point on eyewitness. :)

you are awesome sir!

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!

Excellent video and presentation. Why is this man not presenting on TV?

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 ;)

Interview It's a wonderful voice. I was entertained.

Very very cool video

What book is that one with the Moon images? Thanks!

I just received a 660x60mm telescope for Christmas and it came with a moon filter lens. I can hardly wait to use it since it's winter here in Northern On. Canada it will be awhile before I get to use it now that the snow has arrived. I have no desire to lug it on onto 4 feet of snow to try and look at the moon in -30c weather. I'll now have to wait for spring in the meantime, I have been watching videos like this to learn so my 1st spring viewing with a telescope will hopefully be easier.. All i have are the lenses that came with the scope I have an M25mm,h12.5mm and an sr4mm along with 3.3x and a 2x Barlow. Which of these are ok and which should I look to upgrade? I know company's cut costs by using lower quality lenses but I haven't a clue which are decent or what to look for if any one can direct me into some quality lenses upgrades that will last for this and future scopes that would be cool. Thanks. Oh and it's a refractor I also have an erecting Barlow lens which I suspect is for land viewing.. More questions How do I know what size eyepiece to look for, Is there a way to measure the eyepiece like if its a 1.25 inch or how ever that works? Can you upgrade the diagonal mirror? Would this set be a solid upgrade to invest in www.ebay.ca/itm/SkyWatcher-1-25-17mm-SP-SERIES-SUPER-PLOSSL-TELESCOPE-EYEPIECE-20370-/130703782500?pt=UK_Telescope_Eyepieces&hash=item1e6e8d7264

Yay, Des Moines!

very interesting

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.