How many planets are visible without a telescope?
Posted by EC on Sep 27, 2003 at 12:30
(67.4.82.25)I don't know about the rest of you but I'd say you could see seven, not six planets with Uranus, unless you never look down. ;¬)
Seeking the Sixth Visible Planet
I trained my telescope on Uranus a few weeks ago when it was so close to Mars and it resolved nicely to a pinpoint at around 300x. It would have to be really dark and you would have to have much younger eyes than mine to see it naked eye, it was mighty dim.