Astronomy · Observing Logs · Tag · uranus

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The seeing was only moderately steady so the faint, green-ish disk was all that could be seen in times of clarity. It was possible to discern it was not starlike but otherwise that was not much else to be made out.

Uranus is currently only a few arc-minutes way from Jupiter and is easy to hop to with a telescope. The dim, faintly blue planet showed no detail.

As before this was nothing more than a pale bluish disc which was visible to the naked eye close to Aquarius.

Using the finder chart provided on the Sky and Telescope website Uranus was a fairly easy to target to locate, despite being close to the trees and therefore behind a thick atmosphere. A triangle of lights were located with Uranus appearing to my eyes slightly blue. On increasing the magnitude using progressively the 25mm Plossl (x24), then the 10mm Plossl (x60) it was a simple matter to confirm this was disc rather than point of light. A small blue-tinted disc presented itself at x120 with the 2x Barlow used with the 10mm Plossl.

My final effort with the camera was to take a picture including the planet Uranus which is currently at magnitude 5.7 in Aquarius. Unfortunately Aquarius is positioned just above two bright street lights making it very difficult to observe. In the picture I have identified Uranus successfully but the image is largely washed out by the lights.