Posted on 10/19/2017 6:44:17 AM PDT by C19fan
You might not need a telescope to spot Uranus tonight. The ice giant planet will reach opposition on Thursday, bringing it to the closest point in its orbit to Earth. In this position, the blue-green planet will be visible in the sky all night long and, while youll definitely be able to see it with binoculars, NASA says Uranus may even be bright enough to see with the naked eye.
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I have a pair of Nikon image stabilized 16x32 binoculars, and I was disappointed, because the sky was crystal clear when my workday was over, but I had an event I had to go to, and when I came out around 9:30 PM...it was cloudy.
Damn.
I was just getting ready to go to bed, and thought I would take a look to see if there was a break in the clouds, and...there it was! Right on the elliptical...
It was clearly visible without binoculars, but when you look at it...good gosh, it has that beautiful shade of blue you see in the pictures!
First time in my life I have ever seen it...:)
I think his name rhymes with spaz, or razz, something like that...:)
Hahahahaha...too late, already there!
I think...
Yup. Uranus is a gas planet.
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