Venus and Uranus very close Tuesday morning

"John Nichols" wrote in message
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"John Nichols" wrote in message
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"Florian" wrote in message
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Venus and Uranus will be very close to each other on Tuesday morning.
Looks like the separation will be less than 20'. HNSky says Venus will
be mag -4.1 and Uranus mag 5.9. Quite a difference in brightness!

-Florian

For once the skies are supposed to be clear here when something cool is
happening, and better yet, I don't have to go to work. So I'm planning
to get up and try to see this with both my binos and refractor. Venus'll
be easy, it's a tossup given my ridiculously light polluted skies, but
the proximity should help.


I dropped an entire planet from the above. It's Uranus that'll be the
tossup to find.


I was able to find it, very faint below Venus. I was not able to eyeball
it, as it was morning twilight here.

Almost missed it this morning. I went out about 5:40am but by then the sky was getting quite bright. Venus was easy to see of course but could not locate Uranus in binoculars. Switched to my TV76 and at 30x was just able to pick out a little pinprick of Uranus. Would never have been able to spot Uranus without having Venus so close as a guide. I also saw Mercury using binoculars near the horizon and on the other side of the sky saw Jupiter near the wide double Zuben Elgenubi in Libra.

-Florian

Originally Posted by John Nichols

I was able to find it, very faint below Venus. I was not able to eyeball
it, as it was morning twilight here.

I gave this event a miss as from UK [London at least] the combo too low and in bright twilight to be worth getting out of bed;-) Did see Venus and Mercury in LX200 via GOTO in midmorning coffee break and that WAS fun with Venus like this via handheld afocal digicam!

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