and ought to produce around 10 or 20 “shootingstars” per hour, though perhaps as many as 40. They’re caused by debris left in the solar system by Halley’s Comet. Get outside an hour ...
The distant ice giant is 5.7° southwest of the the Pleiades (M45), one of the most famous star clusters in the sky. Uranus also lies quite close to a fainter, magnitude 7.6 field star this ...