Ophelia (moon) Ophelia (moon) Ophelia ( ) is a moon of Uranus. It was discovered from the images taken by "Voyager 2" on January 20, 1986, and was given the temporary designation S/1986 U 8. It was not seen until the Hubble Space Telescope recovered it in 2003. Ophelia was named after the daughter of Polonius, Ophelia, in William Shakespeare's play "Hamlet". It is also designated Uranus VII. Other than its orbit, radius of 21 km and geometric albedo of 0.08 virtually nothing is known about it. At the Voyager 2 images Ophelia appears as an elongated object, the major axis pointing
Hurricane Ophelia (2005) of the 2003 season, which had caught the authorities off-guard. Ophelia prompted the Canadian Hurricane Centre's first ever tropical storm warnings which were canceled when Ophelia became extratropical. Before Ophelia made its closest approach to land near the Outer Banks on September 15 and 16, it caused moderate beach erosion along the Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina. Average swells of affected the region for several days as the storm meandered offshore. Squall lines associated with the storm brought moderate to heavy rains along with high winds, gusting to in isolated thunderstorms. Along the northeastern coast of Florida, up to of