Uranus this month
Uranus is in the morning sky, 148° west of the Sun: look before dawn. It shines at magnitude +5.6 in Taurus (binoculars needed).
- Magnitude
- +5.6
- Constellation
- Taurus
- From the Sun
- 148° west
- Distance
- 18.59 AU (2,781 million km)
- Apparent size
- 3.8″
- Position
- RA 4h 11m, Dec +21.0°
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Rise and set today in six cities
Local times on 26 October 2026. A planet that rises before sunset and sets after it is up in the evening; one that rises in the small hours is a morning object.
The year ahead
Angular distance from the Sun as seen from Earth. Inside the shaded band (15°) a planet is lost in twilight.
Coming events
- Opposition: (opposite the Sun: up all night, closest and brightest)
- Conjunction: (behind the Sun, not visible)
- Opposition: (opposite the Sun: up all night, closest and brightest)
- Conjunction: (behind the Sun, not visible)
- Opposition: (opposite the Sun: up all night, closest and brightest)
- Conjunction: (behind the Sun, not visible)
- Opposition: (opposite the Sun: up all night, closest and brightest)
Seeing Uranus
Uranus is just at the limit of naked-eye visibility from a truly dark site, at about magnitude 5.7, and is most easily found with binoculars and a chart of its position. Through a telescope it is a small, pale blue-green disc. It was the first planet discovered with a telescope, by William Herschel in 1781.