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Old 28-09-2008, 07:17 PM
Dennis
Dazzled by the Cosmos.

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Thank you Lester, Jeff & Troy

I’ve just completed the animation; it’s not perfect as I just couldn’t seem to normalise the background between frames so there is a little “flashing” between frames.

I’ve also included a mosaic showing the position of Neptune. The Neptune component (lower slot) was a 3 min exposure and you can see the huge bloom. In the (upper) 20 minute frame, at the bottom edge, you can just see a glow which indicated the position of Neptune, well below the border.

I noted that the text book magnitude of Nereid was around 19.6 mag., but decided to have a go as the NASA/JPL Horizons ephemeris indicated 18.72, just within reach of the C9.25.

Nereid animation: WARNING: 1.3Mb file size.

Cheers

Dennis
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