Categories: AstrophotosUranus

Astrophoto: Uranus at Opposition

Uranus, imaged from Italy on October 3, 2013, when the planet was at opposition. Credit and copyright: Giuseppe Petricca.

Last week, we asked if you were looking for an observing challenge: looking for planet Uranus when it reached opposition — where it is opposite the Sun the sky, meaning the planet rises as the Sun sets. Giuseppe Petricca from Italy took the challenge and ran with it. His skies over Sulmona, Abruzzo in Italy cleared, and not even 12 hours after the official time of opposition he got this shot using his new Toucam Pro II on a Newtonian 200/1000 on EQ5 unmotorized mount.

Nice!

Want to get your astrophoto featured on Universe Today? Join our Flickr group or send us your images by email (this means you’re giving us permission to post them). Please explain what’s in the picture, when you took it, the equipment you used, etc.

Nancy Atkinson

Nancy has been with Universe Today since 2004, and has published over 6,000 articles on space exploration, astronomy, science and technology. She is the author of two books: "Eight Years to the Moon: the History of the Apollo Missions," (2019) which shares the stories of 60 engineers and scientists who worked behind the scenes to make landing on the Moon possible; and "Incredible Stories from Space: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Missions Changing Our View of the Cosmos" (2016) tells the stories of those who work on NASA's robotic missions to explore the Solar System and beyond. Follow Nancy on Twitter at https://twitter.com/Nancy_A and and Instagram at and https://www.instagram.com/nancyatkinson_ut/