Good food for thought guys! Could well have been a star, given that it was not high in the sky at all and, well, pitch black...no, not as I recall! I'm not really able to come up with more info than the vague-aries above
. If it happened now, I'd have great apps and books to sort out exactly what I was looking at, oh, and a trusty Dob to make it all much clearer!
Thanks Alex for the Neptune hunting wisdom; I've tracked down a fair bit of stuff over the past couple of years, but I can honestly say that I'm just not sure whether I've seen Neptune or not! I've found Uranus plenty, but every time I go Neptune hunting, I come away a little empty
One day, I'll pack up my scope for the night and smile, KNOWING I've seen my favourite planet!
