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Just came in from looking at the Egress of Neptune from behind the dark lunar limb.
It reminds me just how hard it normally is to find Neptune against the background stars.
Even at 156x magnification it was a challenge to make out the tiny Blue/Green of Neptune against the massive Lunar disk.
With a little patience though, it was soon obvious that yes, it was in fact a planet I was looking at.
Worth the effort of getting up for, to see it reappear at 3:49am, exactly as predicted and to realize just how far away that huge gaseous planet Neptune is !
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