Locating Uranus from Aries using star hopping - Oct 2020

 Locating Uranus from Aries with Binoculars and a little help from the planet Mars in light polluted skies (Oct 2020)

Locate the bright stars of Hamal, Sheratan and Mesarthim in Constellation Aries by looking to the left of a very bright Mars in evening skies.

From Mesarthim, locate Iota Arietis just to the right and then count down 5 lesser bright stars to locate 19 Arietis. If 19 Arietis is in the upper right of your binoculars, then Uranus should be somewhere in view in the lower left.…

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Vernal Equinox in Pisces

Pisces is a great constellation for anyone wishing to see 0h RA line and the 0deg celestial equator.
The Pisces circlet is just  barely over 6.5deg across so you may not be able to get the whole circlet in your finderscope.
Kappa pisceum in the circlet is barely a degree above the equator and if you can find Omega pisceum (a 2deg hop from iota Pisceum) then you are extremely close to 0h

Anyone wishing to see the Celestial Equator (0degrees) and RA (0h) intersection can clearly see it in the skies these nights (October)
 Locate the waterjug of Aquarius. The Celestial Equator goes right through Eta Aquarii and Zeta1 Aquarii. Follow the line down below the circlet of Pisces and just between Omega Pisces and Delta2 Pisces, is the 0th hour (RA=0).
Also this a great way to locate the Planet Uranus which is in Pisces these days (Oct 2013).