“Uranus” flies in the skies of the Arab world. Saturday

It will arrive in the sky of the Arab world on Saturday evening October 31, 2020And Ranus, the turquoise planet At the closest point to Earth and its face fully lit by the sun, which is the best time to observe it during the year.

According to the Jeddah Astronomical Society, what the correspondence means is that the planet will meet the sun in Earth’s sky, a phenomenon that occurs whenever Earth falls between the sun and Uranus, and it needs to be clarified that this What the fall of Uranus to the closest point to Earth means is only based on astronomical criteria, as it is actually 2,810,639,880 kilometers from our planet. Uranus is still far away.

Since Uranus is in the opposite direction, it will rise at sunset, reach its highest point in the sky at midnight, and set at sunrise the next day.

We know when one of the planets in the encounter is in its brightest and best conditions, but for Uranus its apparent luminosity will be “+5.7”, so it will be like faint stars to the naked eye, and it will fall about 20 degrees east of Mars in front of the Aries stars, and Uranus will only be 3.7 arc seconds wide. But that’s enough to see it as a little fuzzy ball, not as a point through high powered telescopes, but even through small, well-made telescopes.

To try to see Uranus with the naked eye, the observation must be done from a dark place away from the light pollution of cities which can be easily seen through binoculars as a faint point of light, provided the observer know how to determine its location with the help of an app, and this year will coincide with the meeting of Uranus and the presence of the moon, which will affect the monitoring of Sun objects in the dome of the sky.