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Old 29-07-2005, 08:19 AM
ausastronomer (John Bambury)
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Gaz,

I see Uranus more as a greenish grey disk than blue. Neptune is blue/grey. If you haven't found them before the 6th at Kulnura we will help you out. A medium/high power widefield eyepiece helps a lot in finding these when using a dob and starhopping. In your 8" about a 10mm eyepiece for 120X under good conditions (so actual star images are tight), should enable you to differentiate the planetary disks out fairly easily when you find them.

CS-John B
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