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Originally Posted by erick
Uranus, absolutely confirmed last night. Takes a bit of searching (and my new erect image adapter came into its own for the first time  . I could look from eyepiece to Stellarium display when I was in the right area.) Yes, could see the disc at 120x and, I agree, a green-blue colour.
Neptune is going to be a challenge - I might not get a chance this year. |
Excellent, good work. I think that as Neptune doesn't stand out in the way Uranus does, finding it depends on your ability to match the view through a low mag/wide field eyepiece to a star chart. A skill I am most definitely only just starting to learn (good job I didn't buy a goto scope eh?). If you can quickly work your exact eyepiece view on your charts it would be not to difficult.
As an aside I saw the 5th and 6th stars in the trapezium the other night, I hadn't even realised there was a sixth one till I saw it and then went and checked online. I had drawn them in just the right places without having known where they were in advance so was quite chuffed at that.