Wars are fought over boundaries that

have been created in the name of politics,

religion, race or beliefs. But the view from space reveals

the true nature of our cosmic home—

a border less planet divided only into land and sea.

Boundaries vanish when we look skyward.

We all share the same sky

ONE PEOPLE, ONE SKY

Wednesday, November 29, 2006

Sakthivel writes :

Occultation of Uranus

I was fortunate to observe the occultation of Uranus by the moon
yesterday(November 28). I first thought I can observe this using the
10x50 binoculars. But I could not see Uranus through the binoculars.
The sky had hazy clouds. I set up my c11 and I could see Uranus only
as a dot(70x). As I was watching Uranus suddenly disappeared. I
thought it could be because of clouds. Suddenly I realised that it
was 9:23pm(Indian Standard Time) the time of beginning of occultation.
I could not observe the reappearance of Uranus from the lit side of
the moon at around 10:25pm as it became cloudy.

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