Neptune?

[Bravescope]

Is there a reason there is so few astrophotos of Neptune? Poor little blue planet gets no attention!

BB

[Doc]

Because there's not alot to photo I guess. Even with the best equipment you can see no detail, just a blue disk.

I have seen it a few times visually and it looks like a large blue star, with high magnification about x300 I think I managed to resolve to a disk.

[russ]

Yep, Doc has covered it really. Myself and Rob observed Neptune in 2008 with a Skymax 150 and even with 332x we could only see a tiny blue disk.

[Bravescope]

I find it so strange that we can get great pictures of galaxies millions of lightyears away but have trouble with something so close...

BB

[russ]

Galaxies are massive in the sky relative to Neptune. The challenge is their low surface brightness. But that can be overcome with long exposures. Where as poor old Neptune requires a colossal magnication to overcome it's size issue and that's not easily overcome.

[Demonperformer]

But galaxies are a lot larger than Neptune