Hi. The other day I remembered seeing a "planet" in the eastern morning sky (NSW) with a 60mm refractor (which I no longer have) between the dates of Feb 2013 and Aug 2013 (this was the amount of time I had the refractor before replacing it with a Dob!). I wondered at the time what it was and sort of left it at that. I had a squizz at my Astronomy Australia 2013 book the other day and narrowed it down to 3 possibilities: Mercury, Neptune or Uranus. Now, I could rule out Mercury because, even though I was pretty "green" back then, I would have noticed the bright star-like shining of Mercury and the planet I saw was hardly visible to my eye (if I recall correctly - oh and, I found it by sheer accident too!). So I'm left with either Uranus or Neptune...question is: can Neptune be seen with a 60mm refractor? If not, then I guess it was Uranus! (Had fund narrowing this down - even had to find a Visa transaction to see when I bought the Refractor too!) Well, hope y'all don't think I've gone loco, but it just bugged me.....
