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Willy1729
2 years ago

Hello,

the color could also fit to pi Arietis, which is a half size class brighter than Uranus and can also be found nearby. Also sigma Arietis could be considered.

Sigma Arietis, Uranus and pi Arietis stand approximately in a line below the moon, while Uranus is quite right in the middle and lights slightly weaker.

All three objects would be observable with a field search, but not very noticeable.

Best regards,

Willy

Willy1729
2 years ago
Reply to  Pechele

If the instrument is set correctly, they will indeed appear as points. But the Uranus is so far away from us that it hardly seems to be a small one. The somewhat washed-up image can have many causes. Not properly focused, not exactly redirected, therefore with longer exposure motion blur, air turmoil, excessive magnification…

You should have taken care of which stars are still visible.

Above all, the axis Sigma A. Uranus, Pi A. could have noticed, since all three have a bluish color and are approximately the same bright.

BurkeUndCo
2 years ago
Reply to  Willy1729

Really good description.

Willy1729
2 years ago

Then it is no wonder that the recording is not sharp.
If you don’t increase so much, it becomes easier. The light intensity is better and the field of view is larger. In addition, an object does not run out of the image so quickly.

Willy1729
2 years ago

As a star atlas I liked to use the two volumes of Uranometria 2000.0, which nowadays are only to get antiquarian and show the stars that can also be seen in an astronomical field search (I have a 20×80 of Vixen). Since my eyes have left behind, I can no longer recognize the weaker stars – but if you know something in the sky, you can still see one or the other.

Willy1729
2 years ago

It’s impossible. Unless you saw him with a naked eye. Then it would certainly not have been Uranus.

When there were no astronomy programs, I got the ephemerides of the planets or planetoids that I wanted to observe from an astronomical yearbook and marked in a star map from the heavenly area. Then, if I didn’t have the opportunity to set declination and angle of hours, I could pick out the right piece using striking star arrangements and comparisons with the card. The rough orientation ran over the constellations, which are already to be seen with the naked eye.

Thus, Hamal from the ram, Menkar from the whale fish and the moon form an equally clinging triangle with the moon at the top, which can be seen with the naked eye. The side halving from the moon to the connection Menkar-Hamal is about on the ecliptic. The line Sigma A. Uranus Pi A. pierces these side-half ends at a right angle approximately at half height somewhat closer to the moon. In this area, I would have directed the field searcher/scope and would soon have hit Uranus because it is very close to the ecliptic. For safety, I would have searched for the other two bluish stars of the constellation of Widder and examined whether the real Uranus would take their center.

BurkeUndCo
2 years ago

No, not with absolute certainty.

Uranus is so weak that you cannot see him in Germany with the naked eye or a mobile phone.

BurkeUndCo
2 years ago
Reply to  Pechele

After you looked at it with your telescope, I’d really believe it’s Uranus.

Like him (but now no telescope is on hand).

And also in Sky-Safari he looks quite like you pictured.

Three thumbs up.

BurkeUndCo
2 years ago
Reply to  Pechele

And why do you write such meaningful information in any comment like here, and not as a supplement directly to the question?

BurkeUndCo
2 years ago

But only now.

Pudelskern666
2 years ago

Very unlikely, although Uranus is actually located obliquely right under the moon. The Uranus is too small or too far away to produce such a bright image in an amateur instrument. Probably got a brighter star. Or do you work with professional devices in an observatory?

Pudelskern666
2 years ago
Reply to  Pechele

It’s been a long time. Come on, tell me what you did. I’ve got two telescopes myself and I’m not completely unconscious.

BurkeUndCo
2 years ago

Don’t make any comments.

Miranda has a brightness of 15.8.

So if you see Uranus, you don’t have to see Miranda for a long time.

Pudelskern666
2 years ago

Yes, details. You’ll see me waving with some luck. Count your fingers.

Pudelskern666
2 years ago

Schnubbel… Miranda is a moon of Uranus which is currently very close to Uranus. He should be on your picture.

Pudelskern666
2 years ago

Don’t be unfriendly now. You are the one who has to ask what he saw with his expensive telescope.

Pudelskern666
2 years ago

Then I wondered that Miranda is not visible.

dwarfrabbit2
2 years ago

Could be.

Candyman712
2 years ago

This is Venus, our neighbor planet. Uranus cannot be seen with the naked eye.