Neptune returns to its origin
August 2010: Mercury, Venus, Mars, and Saturn gather low in the west at dusk and set within 2 hours of the Sun. Jupiter becomes the major attraction from late evening until dawn, but both Uranus and Neptune make worthy targets for binocular users.
By Alister Ling
By Martin Ratcliffe
Published:
June 28, 2010
 Neptune appears blue-gray through backyard telescopes, a far cry from its appearance to the Voyager 2 spacecraft in 1989.
Photo by NASA/JPL |
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