Neptune's Cloud features near North Pole (Timelapse animation)

by Aiken Ji

Equipment: Celestron C9.25 SC XLT, QHYCCD QHY5III678M, QHYCCD QHY5III715C

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1. Bright Clouds Features Near Neptune’s North Pole Neptune has a dynamic atmosphere composed mainly of hydrogen, helium, and methane, with bright cloud features often visible at infrared wavelengths. Because Neptune is more than four billion kilometers from Earth, subtle atmospheric structures are extremely difficult to observe from the ground. On August 26 in East part of China, I was fortunate…