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Uranus is the 3rd remotest planet in the Solar System, binding a family of 27 moons/moonlets (27/7/2006 NASA) to its orbit. It has several tenious rings and orbits onits equator which means that its poles are pointed along the ecliptic.
Uranus Facts Average Distance from the Sun: 2,870,972,200 km / 1,783,939,400 miles /19.191 A.U
Equatorial Radius: 25,559 km / 15,882 miles
Equatorial Circumference: 160,592 km / 99,787 miles
Uranus is located at such a distance that it presents only a very small target to image and no atmospheric features can be seen except from the Voyger and Hubble spacecraft.
The images below were captured using the 14" SCT at the Doncaster AS Observatory.
All images are a combination of stacked avi-frames from the webcam using Registax and image processing in Photoshop (when required).
This is the full size resultant image as seen on the computer screen via the webcam. I have included it here to show how small and remote the planet is.The red channel has been dropped from the RGB in the final processing.
This is the full size resultant image as seen on the computer screen via the webcam. As you can see, it is slightly larger but even with the 2.5x barlow, there's not much to see! Again the red channel was dropped from the processed image.
2006/07/25 00:02UT
Seeing: 7/10, Good (No Moon)
Scope: 14" Meade SCT @f10
Webcam: Philips Toucam 964 frames
Resolution: 320x240px
Location: Doncaster AS Observatory
RA: 23h03.1m Dec: -06°56'
Altitude: +19°12' Azimuth: 133°20'
Distance from Earth: 19.3au Mag: +5.7
Apparent Angular size:3.6"
2006/07/25 00:05UT
Seeing: 7/10, Good (No Moon)
Scope: 14" Meade SCT @f25
Webcam: Philips Toucam 524 frames
Resolution: 320x240px
Location: Doncaster AS Observatory
RA: 23h03.1m Dec: -06°56'
Altitude: +19°12' Azimuth: 133°20'
Distance from Earth:19.3au Mag: +5.7
Apparent Angular size:3.6"
All images are Copyright © 2005-2006 John Cox
