![]() “Over these three days of observations, we will be building up the most detailed infrared map of Uranus that we have ever completed (a full 360 degrees longitude), and by doing this we hope to detect and fully map the southern infrared aurora for the first time ever.” The observations will be led by Leicester PhD student Emma Thomas. Observations of Uranus will take place from 9.00am to 4.55pm (BST) on Friday 8, Saturday 9 and Sunday 10 October 2021, and will be available to watch on the RAS YouTube channel. The collaboration follows a hugely successful RAS livestream in 2020, also led by Leicester scientists, which observed the shadow of the moon Ganymede pass across the face of Jupiter in real time. Herschel went on to become the founding president of the RAS in 1820. Uranus was first discovered by Sir William Herschel in 1781, using a small telescope in his back garden in Bath. Members of the public are invited to view live footage of the ‘ice giant’ – 50,000 kilometres across and almost 3 billion kilometres from Earth – as the experts look to measure and analyse various aspects of its atmosphere across three days of observations using NASA’s Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF) on Mauna Kea, Hawai’i. ![]()
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