[David_W (Dave)]

Hi Everyone,
I had a look at Neptune on Saturday night, as I had some pretty good stable conditions (a rarity these days). Using 280X I could see a very faint star near the planet to it's ~east, several planet diameters away.

I don't expect to see Triton with my 5" refractor of course, but I was wondering what the magnitude of this star was. I suspect around 12th, as 47 Tuc was well resolved that night and it has it's AGB stars at around that magnitude.

Does anyone know any links that can tell me? It'd be great to know what kind of magnitude I can get down to from my rural back garden.

Cheers,
Dave