Great link, Squink! Thanks
We are still doing better than Kevin Bacon. All he has is six degrees.
I’d agree that that would be the limit, since the OP specified “standing on the surface”, and you can’t stand on the surface of any object within the Roche limit. But there isn’t actually a single Roche limit: It depends both on the density of the parent object and of the satellite (D = R(2 rho_p/rho_m)^(1/3), where R is the radius of the primary, rho_p is the density of the primary, and rho_m is the density of the moon). You’d get the biggest view from a very dense satellite orbiting a very low-density primary. Saturn’s the lowest-density object of any significant size in the Solar System, at a mere 0.687 times water, so any moon with a density of at least twice that (quite plausible, if it’s made up of anything other than ice) could get all the way down to the surface before being within the Roche limit. I’d imagine that there are some such objects that come pretty close, but they’re probably not named.
Wouldn’t that mean the two orbs were touching… in a sense, that would be catastrophic!
I bet there is a limit before these bodies begin to crash into each other!
The Earth takes up 179.999º as seen from the Earth.
It does better than that at some points on the surface.