will i see uranus with 8" Dob ?

[Dazraz]

Hi can anyone tell me if i will be able to see uranus with a 8" dob ?

Regards

[John]

Yes - it's really close to Jupiter at the moment (Stellarium will show you just where) and appears as a star in the same field of view as Jupiter in an 8x50 finder scope.

You need around 150x magnification to show it as a tiny pale blue / green disk - not star-like at all.

[Astro_Baby]

But oh so teensy

[marcdearn]

I have seen it with my 5''Newt so i would say it is possible

[paraman]

Hi can anyone tell me if i will be able to see uranus with a 8" dob ?

Regards

I managed to pick it out the other night and also neptune for the first time ever in an 8 inch sct.

[Moonshane]

if you get Jupiter in the 'top right' of the field and an eyepiece with about a 1 degree field of view (eg a standard 25mm plossl in your scope) then Uranus will be in the 'bottom left' approx. of the same scope view - they are about 0.8 degrees apart at opposition (tomorrow). even at this magnification it will show as a disc and you can then increase the magnification.

the above is for newts of course the view in a refractor will be (I think) bottom right for J and top left for U??

[GazOC]

You can see it in pair of small binoculars but obviously not as a disk!

[Ogri]

Yes I got it the other night in the 200p dob. Dad was ecstatic too, he'd never seen it before either.

[twotter]

Me too...and I've not stopped making childish jokes about since

[Dazraz]

I managed to pick it out the other night and also neptune for the first time ever in an 8 inch sct.

what did neptune look like ?

[Moonshane]

it will be an even smaller darker bluish green disc. it is an obvious disc though again at moderate magnifications and unlike stars, the disk gets bigger (albeit more fuzzy) with more magnification.

[yeti monster]

what did neptune look like ?

A grumpy old man with a pointy stick......

[Skills]

I saw it no problem on friday with my 200p and a 13mm lens (x92), it resolved to a small disk (so wasn't a star) and was bluey green in colour. Seeing Uranus and the GRS on Jupiter (and a moon transit) made for my best night observing so far.

[starstalker]

this was taken thru my 8" skywatcher with my dslr