Neptune - First view

[Damien2904]

Hello 

Tonight I viewed and took some photos of Neptune for the first time. I thought I’d share a couple below….please excuse the quality, I’m still learning photography….I hope you can make it out. ☺️

In the first photo you can just make out an object to the right of the planet, I couldn’t quite work out via SkySafari what it was…it was probably me getting confused tbh. 
I’m presuming it’s probably a star as there was one fairly close tonight, but it couldn’t be Nereid or Triton? 🤔 I image they’d be a lot smaller and not that visible? 
Any help would be great, I’d love to know if it is a moon of Neptune. 

Photos we taken using my SkyMax 180 Pro with Nikon D3200 attached to the Baader Hyperion Zoom. 

Damien 

[orion25]

Greetings, Damien. I do believe you imaged Triton as well as Neptune. I see the pair visually quite often with my Skyview Pro 180. I hope to grab an image myself, soon!

Cheers!

Reggie

[Damien2904]

Thank you for letting me know Reggie. 🙂

I’m very surprised that I was able to capture it, there was quite a lot of light pollution in the area. I will try and improve my photos next time. 
 

I hope you get to take some images and share with us soon. 
 

Damien

[callisto]

Well done and thanks for sharing 

 

Mark

[Pete Presland]

very nice capture