At a distance of 2852 000 000 km, with an apparent disc only 3,7″ across, Uranus is hardly our neighbourhood’s planet.
It was easy to detect with binoculars, also in a 8×50 finderscope it stood clearly out as a ‘fat’ star, with a slight green-bluish color.
It imaged this with the ASI2600 MC One-shot-color camera, which was clearly a mistake. The “details” (like half the planet that is brighter) only pop out when imaging in infrared. next time better!
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Jupiter is fading away in the Wetern sky, getting closer to the setting sun every day.
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