Tonight is your chance to see distant Uranus, the most difficult to spot "naked eye" planet.
Tonight is the conjunction, i.e., close approach with each other, of Venus and Uranus. Look to the west at 7:30 p.m. at blazing Venus while using binoculars. Just to the left of Venus will be a dim starlike object. That will be Uranus.
Why not photograph both objects when they are so close to each other? If you have a digital camera with manual control capability:
• place it on a tripod,
• if it has a variable ASA setting, set that at the maximum value,
• set the focus at infinity,
• open the f stop as wide as it will go,
• adjust the shutter speed to 8 or 15 seconds,
• and zoom on Venus.
Take a couple of shots and download them to your computer's photo program. Uranus likely will have been captured along with the surrounding star field. Astronomy without a telescope!
Such is our view from Earth...
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