Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Aquarius (Aqr)  ·  Contains:  7.69  ·  Neptune
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Neptun plus moon Triton, Wanni
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Neptun plus moon Triton

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My first attempt Neptun. (blue spot at centre) Very close by is Neptuns largest moon Triton.

Captured at 22:30, Sept. 8 2015

Triton's orbit has a similar distance to Neptun as Earth's moon to our Earth.

Triton moves retrograde ! ( I will try an animated gif for this at the next opportunity) and

Triton's separation from Neptune varies from about 10″ to 17″

Neptun is four times as big as Earth !

So, Triton is tricky to seperate from it's home planet :

Neptun's mag. is 8, Triton's mag. is 13.5

A) full scale image resized to 50% resolution

D, final) detail crop

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