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I had my first look at Uranus last night too. In my skies at this time of year there are very few guide stars and the sky glow in the area where Uranus is located is terrible I can't believe I found it first go.
I just roughly polar aligned my rig, pointed it at Achernar dialed in the RA setting circle for Achernar , checked the Dec setting circle was correct for Achernar. Then swung the scope according to the setting circles for Uranus. Looked in my finder scope, compared it with my laptop running Stellarium, and I had it in my FOV!
I wasn't expecting success. Usually I'd have printed out the maps and star hopped my way there which would have been hard with the sky glow, but I thought I'd have a quick and easy crack at it.
In my 5" Mak it's very small and grey but clearly a disk.
Last edited by xnomad; 14-10-2009 at 06:29 PM.
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