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Triton--one orbit of Neptune, erdmanpe

Triton--one orbit of Neptune

Triton--one orbit of Neptune, erdmanpe

Triton--one orbit of Neptune

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Three images covering the ~6 day orbit of Triton.  It has such a huge inclination that we can almost view the orbit plane.  A simple image, but it took a number of tries to get a contiguous data set covering one orbit.  Significantly cropped from the total FOV.  You can of course also see Neptune's apparent motion relative to the stars during Triton's orbit.  Each night's image is four frames, 60s exposure each frame.  Just dark subtraction and flat-fielding performed.

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Triton--one orbit of Neptune, erdmanpe