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Old 25-07-2005, 10:55 PM
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If the seeing is poor any bluish star can look like Uranus, but if the seeing is even average you should see a a disc rarther than a bright star , in a dark sky you can see it with the naked eye, at about mag 5.7 it can be seen in 7X50 Bino's,get a chart out of Astronomy 2005 or The Sky or other programs, its quite easy in an eight inch, on the other hand Neptune is of a simular colour but much smaller and fainter and you will need a chart to find it, it to shows a disc and is not starlike. good hunting astroron
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