[jvanderbot]

Once, I had the opportunity to view Saturn through a university telescope. You know the kind with a motorized dome and car sized actuators and such.

It was so, so visible and yet so, so far. Somehow using all that power to see it in real time and still have it be small but look so insanely huge somehow.

I had this vertigo and the scale of the solar system kind of rushed at me. Just like you say.