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Uranus 7/29/03

Started by pkamm, 07/29/2003 01:00PM
Posted 07/29/2003 01:00PM Opening Post
Spotted Uranus last night, that was fun. Last time I looked at it was probably 15 years ago with my old orange C8. At 100x or so it's obviously not a star. At 250x it's a neat little blue-green disc that's clearly too big to be Airy (and the seeing was too bad tonite to see any Airy discs anyway -- they were more like Airy blobs). I even sketched the dot for posterity. Ooooo, look at the detail! :-)

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Posted 07/29/2003 01:49PM #1
Paul, Have you ever made any effort to see Neptune's moon Triton through your 10"? I suspect that under a dark sky it would be detectable. Darian Rachal

Darian R.