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Found Neptune a pretty easy target last night - start at Mars and offset from there. Small blue-green disk at 200X in poor seeing.
The conjunctions of Neptune are also interesting historically in another respect because when it was discovered it was 1 degree from Saturn.
Some of the C18-C19 scopes clearly had exquisite optics based on the double star observations, I’m a little surprised this 8th mag interloper wasn’t noticed in earlier conjunctions.
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