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How to See Uranus Without a Telescope This Week
WNEP ^ | September 11, 2020

Posted on 09/11/2020 10:05:36 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Uranus is visible to the naked eye if you know where to look.

Stargazers, including those without binoculars or a telescope, have a chance to see one of our solar system's outermost planets for the next few days: Uranus. It's barely visible to the naked eye if you know where to look.

The gas giant, which is the seventh furthest from the sun, will appear in the sky between 11:30 p.m. and 4 a.m., according to Joe Rao of Space.com. It will be located within the constellation Aries, about 12 degrees left of Mars.

"It's already one-third up from the eastern horizon by 11:30 p.m. local daylight time and will reach its highest point — more than two-thirds up from the southern horizon — just before 4 a.m.," Rao writes.

A look at where Uranus will be in the night sky on Sept. 13, 2020, at 11:30 p.m. Uranus is the green dot to the left of Mars in the eastern sky. They key is that the moon is not lighting up the sky right now, so Uranus is not obscured in the dark skies as long as it's clear outside. People on the West Coast currently dealing with wildfire smoke may be out of luck.

It's easier to see, of course, with binoculars or a telescope. Rao says a telescope with at least a 3/4-inch aperture should show a tiny, blue-green disc.

Facts about Uranus Uranus is known as the “sideways planet” because it rotates on its side. Uranus was discovered in 1781 by William Herschel. Uranus was the first planet found using a telescope. Uranus is an Ice Giant planet and nearly four times larger than Earth. Uranus has 27 known moons, most of which are named after literary characters. Like Saturn, Jupiter and Neptune, Uranus is a ringed planet. One Uranus day is 17 Earth hours. One Uranus year is 84 Earth years. Voyager 2 is the only spacecraft that has visited Uranus.


TOPICS: Astronomy; Humor; Science
KEYWORDS: astronomy; catastrophism; copyrightviolation; excerpt; science; telescopes; uranus; williamherschel
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To: nickcarraway
"How to See Uranus Without a Telescope This Week"

Something like, how to see biden without a shovel?
41 posted on 09/11/2020 11:09:26 PM PDT by clearcarbon
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To: Bullish

Too late

Don’t look Ethyl!


42 posted on 09/11/2020 11:11:19 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019))
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To: GSWarrior

#18.
Re “I’m afraid I won’t get to see Uranus this year”.

Send me your address and I’ll have my proctologist send you a picture. Badabing, badaboom!


43 posted on 09/11/2020 11:19:48 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: windcliff; stylecouncilor

You wouldn’t want to miss this one ping.


44 posted on 09/11/2020 11:23:39 PM PDT by I Drive Too Fast
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To: nickcarraway
I've always wondered how a spherically shaped object could have ‘’sides’’.
45 posted on 09/11/2020 11:23:54 PM PDT by jmacusa (If we're all equal how is diversity our strength?)
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To: nickcarraway

I took a shower earlier and saw it.


46 posted on 09/11/2020 11:28:19 PM PDT by Trillian
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To: Salamander

I’m just here for the comments.


Me, too. I knew Freepers would look at this from a perspective the author didn’t envision.


47 posted on 09/11/2020 11:37:14 PM PDT by KittyKares (Drain the Swamp)
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To: KittyKares

Rear Admiral, Lower Half...


48 posted on 09/12/2020 12:58:39 AM PDT by null and void (The Left weaponizes everything in the service of tyranny.)
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To: KittyKares

Maybe, maybe not. Perhaps he was short on finances and had to write about Uranus so he wouldn’t be in arrears.


49 posted on 09/12/2020 1:47:16 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Want Stalinazism More ? PLUGS-WHORE 2020 !)
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To: SunkenCiv

“Try the veal ...”


50 posted on 09/12/2020 2:40:08 AM PDT by NonValueAdded ("Sorry, your race card has been declined. Can you present any other form of argument?")
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To: nickcarraway

Venus is wicked bright this morning.


51 posted on 09/12/2020 2:52:58 AM PDT by NonValueAdded ("Sorry, your race card has been declined. Can you present any other form of argument?")
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To: nickcarraway
Didn’t even bother to read past the title, went straight to comments 😂
52 posted on 09/12/2020 3:54:09 AM PDT by nevergore (I have a terrible rash on my covfefe....)
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To: nickcarraway

Dems couldn’t find it with a road map.


53 posted on 09/12/2020 3:55:39 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Salamander

You and me both!


54 posted on 09/12/2020 3:59:32 AM PDT by j.argese (/s tags: If you have a mind unnecessary. If you're a cretin it really doesn't matter, does it?)
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To: nickcarraway

Wrecked’em? Damn near killed’em! A homophone style joke


55 posted on 09/12/2020 4:00:34 AM PDT by j.argese (/s tags: If you have a mind unnecessary. If you're a cretin it really doesn't matter, does it?)
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To: nickcarraway

Bttt


56 posted on 09/12/2020 4:06:28 AM PDT by thinden
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To: a fool in paradise
But it was too late

She'd already been mooned.

57 posted on 09/12/2020 4:13:16 AM PDT by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: nickcarraway
I guess no one here likes astronomy.

I like astronomical humor. 🤓

58 posted on 09/12/2020 4:14:19 AM PDT by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: nickcarraway

Our universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding,
In all of the directions it can whiz;
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know,
Twelve million miles a minute and that’s the fastest speed there is.
So remember, when you’re feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth;
And pray that there’s intelligent life somewhere out in space,
‘Cause there’s bugger all down here on Earth!


59 posted on 09/12/2020 4:21:34 AM PDT by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: nickcarraway

Special report on FNC anchored by Judge Napolitano.


60 posted on 09/12/2020 4:46:57 AM PDT by samkatz
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