William Herschel discovered the planet Uranus in the year of 1781. He was a man that was interested in the sky. He would watch the sky at night and all the way into the early morning. One night as Herschel was watching the stars in the night sky, he noticed a “star” that was bigger than the rest. He compared this “star” to other stars in the sky. Because this “star” was so much bigger, he decided that it was a comet. Herschel used different numbers of magnification power to explore this “star.” From previous observations and experiments that he had done, he knew that the fixed stars in the sky are not proportionally bigger in diameter with the increase of power in magnification. Planets on the other hand would proportionally increase