Uranus is the third largest planet in our
solar system (diameter 51,118 km). As the seventh planet from the Sun
(mean distance from Sun 2,870,972,200 km) , Uranus takes 84 years to complete
an orbit. It is a "gas giant" with no solid surface. It may
have a small, silicate-rich core, but most of its gas consists of hydrogen,
helium and methane. Uranus does not have many surface features, it has
an "uninterrupted" pale blue surface (the methane gas above
the cloud layers gives it a blue-green color).
With many difficult, I succeed to image it. This little blue disk I
capture on 10. July 2002.. At this moment, distance of Uranus was 2 874
million km with apparent diameter of 3,65 arc second and magnitude 5,7. |
