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12-25-2010, 08:28 PM
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 Finding Uranus (No pun intended)
i am probably being a complete buffon but here goes  i decided tonight to go and see if I could see the conjunction of Jupiter and Uranus as aparrently uranus is less than 1.5 degrees from alignment. When I looked using my 20mm eyepiece I am sure I could see Uranus in the background (I had to refocus so I was sure it wasn't a moon) yet when I put my 10mm lens or barlow in it vanished was I losing the light with the smaller apature lens or am I doing something wrong?
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12-25-2010, 08:39 PM
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Who named that planet and why?...  Uranus is so far away.. that very little light comes back from it...The higher the power ep used to see Uranus.. the less light gathering surface.Well done for seeing it in the first off. I do not think you are doing anything wrong.
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12-25-2010, 09:46 PM
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We did the same thing with a similar result. I actually had the best luck with my 2 inch 30mm lense. I could actually see it with the 12.5 mm lense but it appeared fainter than in the 30mm lense and really no larger that I could discerne. We looked at it a few days ago and other than the location of it compared to Jupiter there was really no way for me to be sure it WAS Uranus. Daughter and I both looked at it, checked and rechecked it's location, finally told ourselves that was all there was going to be to it and put it into the log as a found target. Pike
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12-25-2010, 10:21 PM
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I would NOT be surprised at all if you did spot it. With your 5" scope you can't actually resolve it into a disk. It will be a dim star to a casual observer. You'll probably need very good seeing, relatively dark skies and an 8" to 10" scope to see a blueish disk. This time of year Uranus is magnitude around 6 or so, which means in a regular sky you can't even see it with your naked eye.
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12-25-2010, 10:30 PM
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I make it a point never to discuss the planet with non astronomers.
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12-25-2010, 10:39 PM
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Pierre, your horizon pictures are quite beautiful. Pike
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12-25-2010, 10:59 PM
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Yup, thanks. Every day I marvel at the incredible series of coincidences that led to my spending my days here. I think of it as the Center of the Universe.
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03-16-2012, 05:52 PM
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The planet was named after some ancient roman or greek god like cronos, zeus or that fat one which should actually be named after jupiter. So the question is, how did a planet get named after a god named after an an arse??
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03-16-2012, 06:10 PM
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Uranus is named for the Greek god of the sky.
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