[Red Badger]

Will we see URANUS?..............

[Valpal1]

A Grand Syzygy?

[politicket]

One will need a telescope to see Uranus.

[Jyotishi]

“Seven planets to be visible in night sky”

All will be well then.

[lee martell]

“Heavenly bodies, all seven in a row.
Watching them turn
Watching them glow!

[Larry Lucido]

Include Pluto or I ain’t looking.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

Anybody remember the big planetary alignment that was supposed to bring about the end of the world or something? It was quite a while ago, late 80s or early 90s maybe.

[montag813]

BBC article. Is it also true in the U.S. (Northeast here) that the best chance is just after sunset?

[DannyTN]

[Verginius Rufus]

Venus and Jupiter are especially bright after sunset now, but Venus will be in inferior conjunction on March 23 so it won’t be an evening star much longer. Jupiter is a few degrees from Aldebaran in Taurus.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Really? Not till 2040? I guess I'll just take their word for it.

[samkatz]

It’s not worth going out to look without Uranus.

[antidemoncrat]

“You will need a telescope to spot the other two planets - Uranus and Neptune. “

There is an app for smart phones called planets that is very good at locating and naming planets visible or not.

[alexander_busek]

Four of the planets - Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, and Mars - will be visible to the naked eye. Saturn will be harder to see because it will be low in the horizon. You will need a telescope to spot the other two planets - Uranus and Neptune.

The mean apparent magnitude of Uranus is 5.68 with a standard deviation of 0.17, while the extremes are 5.38 and 6.03.

A person with normal vision should thus be able to discern Uranus - provided that there is no light pollution and that, otherwise, seeing conditions are optimal.

Regards,