12/7/2023 0 Comments Show me a picture of neptune![]() ![]() The original image was rather over-green due to colour-balance issues, so I've corrected it by reference to an actual picture of Uranus. The left-hand image is shown at the same scale as the other shots in this gallery to enable direct comparisons to be made. Uranus is so far away that even its giant size doesn't make much of an impact on the webcam sensor: just 7 pixels wide, in fact. I was able to track its motion amongst the stars for several days with binoculars and thus be sure that I'd got the right target when I looked at it with the telescope. I noticed Uranus was not far away in the sky and was amongst a particularly distinctive group of stars which would make it easier to find. ![]() My first success with Uranus was really just an incidental finding when I was doing my series of Mars in 2003. The problems are compounded when using the telescope (with its small field of view) as unless there is a reference object nearby it is almost impossible to know you've got the right target. Neptune is always a binocular object so is thus very hard to find in the first place and then tricky to capture. Though Uranus is nominally visible with the naked eye, in fact it is not easy to spot unless the sky is crystal clear and so really needs binoculars. Uranus and, particularly, Neptune are difficult subjects to get images of because, being so far away, they are much fainter than the other planets. Uranus and Neptune: Picture Gallery Uranus and Neptune: Picture Gallery Pictures of Neptune during conjunctions with Venus and Jupiter Uranus and Neptune captured with the digital camera
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