The Solar System to Scale (HD)

Note: I've tried uploading this a few times now to try to get the full 1080 HD quality looking good ... but YouTube keeps compressing it too much. Anyone got any ideas/hints about how to get the video to look as crisp as the file on my computer?

I've seen plenty of similar videos/images around, but I don't think I've yet seen one that makes use of actual images (rather than computer generated images), let alone images captured by an amateur astronomer. I've also not seen many of these types of videos try to give a sense of interplanetary distances. So this is my attempt.

I intend to improve this video over time! So please give feedback! What did you like, what didn't you like? Are the images left on screen long enough? Did it all make sense, or could some parts use better explanation?

Enjoy!

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• astronomy
• astrophotography
• mercury
• venus
• earth
• moon
• lunar
• mars
• jupiter
• moons
• saturn
• rings
• uranus
• neptune
• titan
• io
• ganymede
• callisto
• europa
• solar
• system
• sun
• planet
• planets
• size
• scale
• distance
• star
• space
• yt:quality=high

[SmallAmphibiousForce]

I think that saying that the sun is 400 times larger than the moon is just a tad misleading. Using the diameters provided, by volume, the sun is actually 64,332,179 times larger than the moon.

(4/3) (Pi) 696,000km^3 = 337,153,536,000,000,000 km^3

(4/3) (Pi) 1737km^3 = 5,240,822,553 km^3

A simpler calculation would just be 400^3 = 64,000,000. The knowledge of the scale in one dimension lends itself to quickly determining the three dimensional scale.

Good video :)

[ChrissyoSpace]

@SmallAmphibiousForce A few people have pointed this out now, and of course, you're totally right. :-) But I'll just point out that the context of that part of the video was the apparent sizes of the Moon and Sun - it's the diameter that's relevant to that part of the video, not the volume. But thanks for the comment, hopefully it will give everyone a bit more insight to the sizes/volumes of these objects!

[blahblibidyblahblah]

great job! I'll be showing my students for science class. The we're going outside to be "scale planets' distances"

[ChrissyoSpace]

@blahblibidyblahblah Cool, it's nice to see my work being used for education! :)

[Gremo]

I liked. I love astronomy. Which font you used? Thanks...

[ChrissyoSpace]

@Gremo Thanks. I think the font is Century Gothic.

[norcuron12]

my favourite!

[Gracetaker]

this is a perfect video. My 6th grade students just finished a solar system strip showing distances between planets, but they know the planets aren't to scale. Your video helps reinforce the concept! AND you even put the distance of our moon, and the sun comparison! One of the best out there.

[Minel225]

beofre 784 years moon has been closest to Earth only 12 km

[AlphaOmega503]

very educational, thanks.

[cedwinccastro]

a golf ball (as sun) a single head of a pin (as earth)..12 feet apart...that's fair..

[Javariko]

Nice music and good video :)