Clouds of Neptune

[andyc]

Clouds of Neptune!
A night of superb seeing, and multiple bright clouds resolved on Neptune. PVOL put out a call for observations, and Sydney provided 9/9 Skippy seeing all too soon after I acquired my new rig :D. There's a call out (http://pvol2.ehu.eus/pvol2/news/view?id=16) to observe the bright clouds, particularly those near the equator, happy to try and oblige. You can even map the blobs if you trust the imaging :D

Incidentally, you can see nicely that Triton is a captured icy body around Neptune - nice bit of retrograde action :rundog:.

Celestron C14, ASI290MM, 642nm IR filter.

[blinky]

wow! How lucky to be able to capture the event but also provide some scientific data from your images at the same time. Well done.

[RobF]

Very impressive work Andy. Thanks for sharing.

[OzEclipse]

FANTASTIC :eyepop: Andy.

Congratulations

Joe

[Troy]

Good images and information Andy, well done :thumbsup:

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Troy

[andyc]

Thanks everyone! Looks like this coming week will be more Sydney lightning than Neptunian storms, but I managed another snapshot last night before clouds and dew rolled in. Seems I have a lot to learn about SCT corrector plates and dew :screwy: