The seventh planet of the solar system, Uranus, never appears brightly in our sky. In fact, it always hovers on the edge of visibility, making it difficult to spot with the unaided eye. On Thursday February 9, it can be found with relative ease, though.
Venus shines brilliantly in the west shortly after sunset. From our point of view, it appears to move right next to faint Uranus on the 9th. Look with binoculars at 7:30 p.m. at Venus. Uranus is the dim starlike object immediately to its left. You are looking at Venus lying 98 million miles from our little blue world and Uranus lurking 1934 million (=1.934 billion) miles away.
Does the glare from Venus blot out the much, much dimmer Uranus?
Such is our view from Earth...
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