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Neptune and Triton, LacailleOz

Neptune and Triton

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging
Neptune and Triton, LacailleOz

Neptune and Triton

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging

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As we continue under succesive weeks of poor seeing at Canberra, I thought I would try at least getting Neptune on to the camera sensor, which I had not done for a couple of years.  I am quite pleased with the colour, and with finding Triton, but I believe the slight features on Neptune are simply arfetacts, because the seeing was typically mediocre.

I created the Triton image by layering  a normally processed Neptune image over that same image, with gamma turned up very high. This revealed a glowing spot at the right position (according to WinJUPOS). I then cut a hole of a few pixels in the top layer to allow a bit of the glowing spot to show through in the normal image. Thus, one cannot interpret relative brightness or size from this image.

I will continue to try to improve my Neptune images as the season progresses.

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Neptune and Triton, LacailleOz