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Outer Planets

Uranus - NASA photo    Neptune - NASA photo   Pluto - NASA photo
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Sky & Telescope's guide to finding the outer planets:
skyandtelescope.com/observing/objects/planets/article_1221_1.asp

Uranus
  • visible as a pale blue-green disk, no features
  • axis is tipped over so far, it is almost horizontal; one pole faces the sun (and us) for decades as it revolves, then we see the equator, decades later the other pole, and back to the equator again
Neptune visible as a pale blue dot, no features
Pluto theoretically visible as a pinpoint of light that doesn't belong to the background constellation; don't know if we've ever seen it from Haggart, but could be of interest to the gung-ho...