I probably have a few thousand bucks worth of gear, but you can get an 8' or 10' reflector dobsonian for a few hundred bucks. After sorting through the highest quality of the frames, you stack em and clean em up, and voila. That image was taken using a planetary imaging camera (glorified cool-sensored webcam, haha) which essentially takes video of the planet, and you break down individual frames (a 60 second video at 30 fps will net you 1800 frames total). It's just a lot smaller than you would think, through a scope. Through the reflector with a 2x Barlow and a 17-25mm eyepiece the rings are very visible, even down to the separations and color differences. I have an 8' reflector I use for my planetary imaging and a refractor scope for DSO.

Unfortunately a naked-eye (through the telescope without any imaging equipment or process) with a consumer level scope may yield less than satisfactory results for some, depending a lot on expectations. 'There are youtubers and facebookers proving every day with experiments that the earth is flat'. is there any basic understanding of mass or gravity here? This is a joke, right? So how did I sit in my backyard and capture this image? How do hundreds of thousands of amateur astrophotographers produce beautiful images of our solar system and space beyond regularly? Do these fucking flat-earth retards go outside occasionally or do they sit inside and jerk off over each other's swiss cheese-style 'arguments & proof'?Р”В®dit: in the beginning he also talks about sticking a sphere in a glass of water and the water not adhering to the outside of the sphere much like it does on earth. Skipped randomly to a time when I heard someone on the monitor talking (oh, I guess this is Dubay?) about 'when you look up at all these points in the sky and you only see light, even planets, stars, everything, it doesn't matter, it's always a smudged plasmic watery mark with no definition even with the best telescopes in the world.'

David weiss flat earth joe rogan