> ... >Non-satellite obs. -- Later in the evening while looking for >Gorizont 13, I saw a +7.0 star not on the +7.5 charts (1950) that I >have. It was near iota Capricorni. There's an online site with >charts with stars to +10 (and deep-sky objects to +12.9!), but I >don't see it there either, so maybe it was an asteroid, at about >21:19, -16.5 (2000). I never dreamed, using handheld 10x50 >binoculars, I'd need star charts to such faint magnitudes!! That >online chart site is: > >http://www.hawastsoc.org/deepsky/ Congratulations, Ed, on your independent discovery of the planet Uranus - unfortunately William Herschel beat you to it by only 219 years :-) The current ephemeris mag for Uranus is 5.7 and the epoch of date position for the approx time of your observation was RA 16h19.4m Dec -16.4 Alan -- Alan Pickup / COSPAR 2707: 55d53m48.7s N 3d11m51.2s W 156m asl Edinburgh / SatEvo & elsets: http://www.wingar.demon.co.uk/satevo/ Scotland / Decay Watch: http://www.wingar.demon.co.uk/satevo/dkwatch/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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