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Deepskydave
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You should try www.Stellarium.org instead.
Dave
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Deepskydave
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You should also check out www.stellarium.org for the software.
Dave
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Proxima 8-24mm Zoom
OPT OIII
Vector 19ah Power Tank
Stellarvue 1.25" 99% Refelctive Diagonal
Wing Thing
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Rick Woods
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My next challenge is to find Mercury, my horizons aint the best, maybe around 3-6 degrees off the SW I can see, and 2-4 off the S.
Try for Mercury during one of its westerly (morning) elongations. Find it in the twilight, and follow it up into the daytime sky. Use high power, and a red filter if you have one. You might be surprised at how much you can see! 
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14" LX200GPS
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AZStarGuy
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Thanks for the Stellarium tip guys! I'm going to give that a try - now if the cloudy monsoons would blow out of here I might have a shot at Neptune!
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planetman83
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If I want to find Uranus or Neptune or some comet I just write down the coordinates of the object. If you have a good map (if you are a real deep sky observer you definitely have one), you can find them fast. Uranus and Neptune are dots in the finder that don't exist in the maps. Pluto is an exception as it is very difficult and you need a very detailed piece of map.
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Thunderhead
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Posts: 562
Loc: Melbourne, Australia
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Both Uranus and Neptune transit at the zenith here, and once this horrible winter clears I'll pump up the mag! I've seen both planets in my 10", Uranus is a tiny disk and greenish at 300x while Neptune is a tiny blue orb at the same mag.
I've yet to try for the moons.
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GSO 10" F5 Dob with flocking & dewshield
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Zhengyi
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I was taking test images on Tuesday night around 23:02EDT, Neptune was my test subject. And I noticed something zoomed across the field. Anyone else saw it?
Animation
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Loc: Eastern Long Island, NY
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I don't know what that was, but last night I was just cruising the sky wide-field and spotted some space junk - brightening (maybe 8th magnitude?) and fading about every three to four seconds - just tumbling. There's a lot of junk up there.
As for Neptune, I'm wondering if I spotted Triton last night. I saw two dots; one about three diameters away at the 3 o'clock position and another at the 11 o'clock position about twice the distance. This was through a 6" refractor using a diagonal, so the real placement would be at the 9 o'clock and 1 o'clock positions, respectively. I could detect them only using averted vision.
Jono
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Booji
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Loc: North Carolina, USA
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[I can just make out the disk and a hint of limb darkening in my 8 inch]
This is what I saw tonight at 417X with my 8" reflector, I found that by using averted vision I could make out the edge of the disk much more easily. I did not think the sky would take that much mag tonight, but there was a few minutes of good seeing now and then.
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Be seeing you,
Booji
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Losmandy G11 non GOTO
Vixen GPD2
Vixen FL102S APO
Edmund Scientific 8" reflector (red tube)
Vixen VMC110L
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astro_anthro
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Loc: Reno, NV
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I had been struggling to find Neptune and Uranus myself when I found this thread and the Stellarium suggestion. Using it on my laptop in conjunction with my binocs and, of course, my telescope I was able to find both within minutes of looking for them. Great program. Wow, I sound like an ad!  Clear skies! Tom
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