Find Uranus This Week

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Posted by Andrew Fazekas April 30, 2011 Comments (3)

For night owls, Saturn will be the sole planet on display in the evening skies over the course of the next month. But early-birds will get a chance to see a “family reunion” of worlds above the eastern horizon at dawn.

The sky show kicks off this weekend as the waning crescent moon pays a visit to both Uranus and Venus.

For the first stop on Saturday, the moon will act as a convenient guidepost to tracking down the seventh planet in the solar system, the icy gas giant Uranus.

Look for the planet about six degrees—or the equivalent of 12 full-moon disks—to the right of the moon.



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http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2011/04/30/night-sky-news-crescent-moon-kicks-off-planet-parade/

[Scuba]

1. This post is mis-directed. It should go to....

...Paul Ryan who can't find his ass with both hands.

[Marblehead]

2. I find it everyday

[damntexdem]

3. I thought I had found it -- but it was a hole in the ground.

;-)

[qazplm]

4. I think it's a little rude

for you to call my anus an "icy gas giant"

I mean gas giant is fair, but icy?

[pokerfan]

5. You can't really see it with the naked eye

but you can if you use a mirror! ;)

[laconicsax]

6. You can if you're lucky enough to have pristine dark skies.

It's an also easy binocular target even in light polluted skies.