Given the planet’s respectable altitude in the south at culmination and its current magnitude of +5.7, it’s entirely possible that the keen-eyed among you will be able to find Uranus with the unaided eye on moonless nights. By the end of October, when the clocks have gone back one hour, Uranus will be highest in the UK sky shortly before 11pm GMT. The seventh planet from the Sun is closest to Earth this year at 19:43 UT (8:43pm BST) on 14 October, when the centres of our two worlds will be 18.9511 astronomical units, or 1,762 million miles (2,835 million kilometres) apart.Īs seen from the centre of the British Isles, Uranus currently attains a maximum altitude of slightly more than 44 degrees above the southern horizon at 1:30am BST. AN graphic by Ade Ashford.On the morning of Saturday 15 October, Uranus comes to opposition in the constellation of Pisces. Click the graphic for a greyscale version suitable for printing and taking outside.
Stars down to sixth magnitude are shown, slightly fainter than magnitude +5.7 Uranus. The brown rectangle highlighting the position of Uranus - seen in greater detail below - is five degrees wide, or roughly the field of view of a typical 10×50 binocular. For scale, the diagonals of the Square of Pegasus span 20 degrees, or the width of an outstretched hand held at arm’s length. It also shows the southern sky at 10pm GMT (after the clocks have gone back) by month end. This naked-eye finder chart for planet Uranus depicts the view to the south, halfway from horizon to overhead, at 1am BST in early October 2016 as seen from the British Isles.
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