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Old 02-08-2006, 12:58 AM
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Let's find Neptune. - reprocessed

I've been wanting to track down Neptune now for a while and with the seeing being as it is this week I thought I'd try for some semi-widefield through the ED80 and try for an animation.

This gif is from the 30th July and 1st of Aug. I'm hoping to catch 6 or 7 nights and make a longer animation. Frankly I was surprised how far it moved in just two night. Let's hope for clear skies on Thursday and Saturday to catch another two.

BTW if yo look closely you will see that the two frames aren't perfectly aligned and with one frame having stronger curves than the other you can see slight movement and brightening of stars. There is I believe,one Asteroid in there. Can you find it
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