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  • Stargazing News - January 30th, 2025

    From CJ@21:2/156 to All on Wed Jan 29 11:35:31 2025
    Thursday, January 30, 2025

    Uranus Stands Still (evening)

    On Thursday, January 30, the motion of the distant, blue-green planet Uranus through the background stars of eastern Aries will slow to a stop - completing a westward retrograde loop that it began in early September. After tonight,
    the planet will begin to creep eastward again. At magnitude +5.7, Uranus can
    be seen in binoculars and backyard telescopes, and even with unaided eyes
    under dark skies. In mid-evening, the planet's small, blue-green dot will be shining less than a fist's diameter to the lower right (or 8 degrees to the celestial southwest) of the bright Pleiades star cluster, Messier 45. Place
    the medium-bright star Botein (Delta Arietis) in the upper right part of your binoculars field of view and Uranus will be the dull blue "star" positioned about half the field to that Botein's lower left. Once you have identified Uranus, enlarge the planet with your telescope.

    (Data courtesy of Starry Night)
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