Observation by Luigi Morrone: Neptune

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Luigi Morrone

Observer

Luigi Morrone

Observed

2020 Oct 20 - 20:39

Uploaded

2020 Oct 27 - 14:31

Objects

Neptune

Equipment

C14 Edge HD Fornax52 mount ASI 290 mono R+IR>610nm

Location

Agerola - Amalfitan Coast -Italy

Title

Neptune

About this image

Neptune October 20th

Neptune under quite good seeing conditions and transparency.Some cloud/albedo features can be seen. In particular a bright patch in the Southen Polar region is visible. The images have been captured through an R+IR 610nm longppass filter.

Unfortunately during the session the seeing was degraded and i have not be able to take other images.

C14 Edge HD Fornax52 mount ASI 290 mono

Agerola-Amalfitan Coast-Italy

Files associated with this observation

Neptune_20201020_Lmorr.jpg (51.7 kB)

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Comments

Martin Lewis, 2020 Oct 27 - 16:51 UTC

Hi Luigi,
Did you get a chance to do a time-separated giff animation to see if the features rotate with the planet? That would help decide whether the features are real or not.
Regards
Martin

Luigi Morrone, 2020 Oct 27 - 18:17 UTC

Hi Martin,

i have preparered a GIF animation, taken into account the two Image but i am not able to attach the file here.

If you have an email i can send it to you.

Many thanks

Luigi

Martin Lewis, 2020 Oct 28 - 00:04 UTC

Hi Luigi,

Just sent you a PM

Martin

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