Where is Uranus tonight?
Uranus is in the morning sky, in the constellation Taurus. Look for it before sunrise, or late at night once it has risen.
- Brightness
- too faint for the naked eyemagnitude 5.6
- Constellation
- Taurus
- Distance from Earth
- 2765 million kmits light left 2.6 hours ago
- Opposition
- 25 November 2026
How to recognise Uranus
The first planet discovered with a telescope. Uranus sits right at the limit of what the eye can see from a truly dark place. You'll need binoculars and a finder chart. It looks like a faint, slightly green-blue star that doesn't appear on star maps.
William Herschel found it from his back garden in Bath in 1781 and at first thought it was a comet. Opposition is the night Uranus sits opposite the Sun in our sky: it rises at sunset, stays up all night and is at its closest and brightest.