Uranus close to Jupiter

While observing Jupiter last night I decided to see if I could track down Uranus. I noticed their rise-times were only about 10-15 minutes apart so in the 8X50 finder I looked for a fairly bright blue/green star a few degrees away in RA from Jupiter.

Presto! The very first star I tried was Uranus, an obvious pale blue & green disk at ~165X.

Cool.

Jeff

Yes, it is an obvious pale blue and really easy to spot since it almost exactly west of Jupiter. I was out Sunday night and an observing buddy found it in his Galileo scope.

dan

Now it's really , really close to Jupiter!