First attempt at Neptune

[ReticMikee]

A very tiny Neptune but  very happy that  A  I found it and  B  managed to get an image of some sort !!!!!

C11

@ F10

ASI120MC

5 min avi

Image resized 200%

[Grotemobile]

That is very very good.Take a

pat on the back.I bet you were

pleased.

Steve

[oldpink]

very nice
tried myself last night but cloud killed the session

[Stargazer33]

For an object that is only 49,000 km in diameter and approx 4.4 billion km away I think that is excellent for a first attempt!

[Johanvk]

Good result. When starting on Neptune  a month ago, I had to shift the RGB images in elevation to compenstate for differential refraction. It looks like your image might still improve in that respect.

Some time ago I abandoned starhopping completely in favour of goto-pointing. The search each time simply cosumed too much of the scarce observing time. 

[FarSide]

I'm still having issues with Uranus let alone Neptune. very impressive. 

[ReticMikee]

Thx guys much appreciated :-)

[iksose7]

Nice capture!

[jabeoo1]

Great image, the shading shows it as spherical.  Impressive for a ball of gas that far out.  Nice ! 

[ReticMikee]

Another image from last night :-)

[simmo39]

Nice image, I must try harder!

[Clayton]

Nice work

[algol]

Nice that's a lovely blue colour, I love the outer planets, so remote and elusive

[bob-c]

very good image of such a small object.

might try myself one day.

                                        robert.

[Jupiterservant]

Really nice stuff!

Well done.

[Pete Presland]

another of the outer gas planets ticked off, only pluto (or not  ) to go to complete the collection!

[sudhangshughose]

Beautiful

[FarSide]

Mike, something i found with Neptune is that a very long imaging session is needed - my latest Neptune (in this post below) was a 40 minute run. I am going to clock that up to about 60 minutes next time and use a 685nm filter to try and squeeze some further structure from the disc. That said with it's current low altitude it may be a fruitless task!

[ReticMikee]

Mike, something i found with Neptune is that a very long imaging session is needed - my latest Neptune (in this post below) was a 40 minute run. I am going to clock that up to about 60 minutes next time and use a 685nm filter to try and squeeze some further structure from the disc. That said with it's current low altitude it may be a fruitless task!

Far side

Great capture :-)

I started off with 10min AVI ,but will certainly attempt longer runs :-)

I'm going to get a mono camera and try with an IR filter see if that improves things ?