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Autumn Skywatching Treat: See Uranus and Neptune in the Night Sky
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| October 27, 2017 04:08pm ET
| Joe Rao
Posted on 10/29/2017 1:19:50 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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Uranus and Neptune will be in excellent positions to spot them in the night sky this autumn.
Credit: Starry Night
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posted on
10/29/2017 1:19:50 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
Uranus jokes in 3...2...1...
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posted on
10/29/2017 1:20:45 PM PDT
by
DoodleBob
To: DoodleBob
I dont want to see Uranus at night or during the day!!
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posted on
10/29/2017 1:23:38 PM PDT
by
dp0622
(The Left should know that if Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
To: BenLurkin
All I have is 8 x 56 binoculars. Good ones, but I don’t know if they’re powerful enough. Would I be able to see them?
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posted on
10/29/2017 1:31:34 PM PDT
by
virgil
(The evil that men do lives after them)
To: DoodleBob
Uranus walks into a bar ...
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posted on
10/29/2017 1:32:06 PM PDT
by
Scrambler Bob
(Brought to you from Turtle Island, otherwise known as 'So-Called North America')
To: DoodleBob
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posted on
10/29/2017 1:33:27 PM PDT
by
gogeo
(Leftists are a parasite that destroys the host.)
To: BenLurkin
Serious question: Does Uranus emit gas and have rings around it?
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posted on
10/29/2017 1:39:04 PM PDT
by
ETL
(Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Nukes. See my FR page)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
10/29/2017 1:42:51 PM PDT
by
ETL
(Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Nukes. See my FR page)
To: ETL
Does Uranus emit gas and have rings around it?Plenty of gas after the garlic hummus last night but I don't know about rings.
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posted on
10/29/2017 1:50:11 PM PDT
by
fso301
To: ETL
Serious question: Does Uranus emit gas and have rings around it?
Yes, but the rings only occur if I am sitting on the thrown too long.
To: BenLurkin
You need a telescope to see Neptune but a mirror to see Uranus!
Unless you want to go to a joint session of Congress where you can see ALL 535 ANUSES at once!
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posted on
10/29/2017 2:17:00 PM PDT
by
Dick Bachert
(Why are damn near ALL the SEX FIENDS Democrats?)
To: virgil
I do not know the answer to that. Perhaps one of the FR serious stargazers can.
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posted on
10/29/2017 2:32:56 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: DoodleBob
Uranus with a greenish tint. Nice.
To: BenLurkin
The older common pronunciation of Uranus was better. They should have let it be instead of arguing for the new common pronunciation a few years ago.
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posted on
10/29/2017 3:09:52 PM PDT
by
familyop
("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
To: Dick Bachert
You need a telescope to see Neptune but a mirror to see Uranus! Unless you want to go to a joint session of Congress where you can see ALL 535 ANUSES at once!You just broke the internet. You are a bad man! :)
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posted on
10/29/2017 3:14:15 PM PDT
by
cpdiii
(DECKHAND, ROUGHNECK, GEOLOGIST, PILOT, PHARMACIST, LIBERTARIAN The Constitution is worth dying for.)
To: familyop
The older common pronunciation of Uranus was better. What was it? Please post phonetically. I am curious.
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posted on
10/29/2017 3:16:04 PM PDT
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cpdiii
(DECKHAND, ROUGHNECK, GEOLOGIST, PILOT, PHARMACIST, LIBERTARIAN The Constitution is worth dying for.)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
10/29/2017 3:23:56 PM PDT
by
tumblindice
(America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
To: BenLurkin
I saw both last weekend with my scope. Ur-ran-us was a brilliant green disk, and Neptune was a smaller dull green disk.
Couldn’t see either planets moons.
Also couldn’t see Ur-ran-us’ naked eye. And I was at a dark sky site.
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posted on
10/29/2017 3:25:10 PM PDT
by
Conan the Librarian
(The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
To: BenLurkin
Modern civilization spends too much time in the gutter to have a planet named Uranus. Just sayin’
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posted on
10/29/2017 3:36:20 PM PDT
by
bluejean
(The lunatics are running the asylum)
To: virgil
All I have is 8 x 56 binoculars.
Uranus is just barely naked-eye visible. On a clear moonless night you should be able to see it. The trick is knowing exactly were to look. Neptune might be too much to ask of binoculars.
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posted on
10/29/2017 5:35:01 PM PDT
by
hanamizu
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