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How to See Planet Neptune: Our Guide to Its 2013 Opposition
Neptune and its large moon Triton as seen by Voyager 2 on August 28th, 1989. (Credit: NASA).
If you do your own stargazing or participate in our Sunday night Virtual Star Parties, you’ve probably noticed we’re starting to lose planetary targets in the night-time sky. August and September of this year sees Venus and Saturn to the west at dusk, with the planets Mars and Jupiter adorning the eastern dawn sky just hours before sunrise.
That means there is now a good span of the night that none of the classic naked eye planets are above the horizon. But the good news is, with a little persistence, YOU can spy the outermost planet in our solar system in the coming weeks: the elusive Neptune. (Sorry, Pluto!)(…)
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© David Dickinson for Universe Today, 2013. |
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