Want to see Uranus!

[matteboy]

I've tried four times and failed! HELP!

OK so it's left of Jupter, I've had a look on stellarium and my question is with a field of view of about two degrees you can see them together in the same view

How do you work out with what EP in is your field of view?

I'm determined to get this on my ticklist tonight if the clouds do break, I know my scope doesn't offer great magnification but I start with the low power and work up to the 10mm once I've found what I want which gives me 90X Mag

Yours in hope!

[NGC 1502]

Hi Matt, your scope is 900mm focal length.

Using your 32mm plossl, then 900/32 = 28x magnification.

The 32mm ep will have an apparent fov of about 50 deg.

50/28 = 1.7 deg actual field of view on the sky.

Currently you wont quite fit Jupiter & Uranus into the same fov.

But a short nudge from Jupiter should nail it. When you think youv'e

found Uranus, push up the mag to reveal ( hopefully ! ) a very tiny disc.

Finder chart here :

http://media.skyandtelescope.com/documents/Uranus_Neptune_2010.pdf

Scroll down to find main chart.

Good luck, Ed.