Planet Neptune Movie

A real movie of the planet Neptune, made by the Hubble Space Telescope. The best download I could find was from http://hubblesite.org/db/2005/22/videos/a/formats/high_quicktime.mov
Best viewed full-screen.

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• astronony
• solar-system
• Neptune
• Hubble
• space

[FeynmanMH42]

Triton in retrograde at the beginning! :D

[miniplus]

@FeynmanMH42 I'm guessing that catching Triton was the reason that they started with a more distant (wider angle) view, and then zoomed in on Neptune after capturing said moon in the corner. That was clever of them.

[EasyWolf31]

I saw Neptune last night in my XT10 Orion Telescope, cool stuff.

[miniplus]

Wow, ten inches!

Are you able to make it follow the ISS? This weekend, 11/July/09, there is a Shuttle mission scheduled to it. The shuttle docks with the ISS on mission day three.

I guess there'd be some tricky adjustments to your equatorial mount to make it follow the ISS orbit. Maybe it's too much monkey business.

Just a thought, anyway.

[Trisscarr]

that was Uranus

[miniplus]

???

It was Neptune. You can verify that by a Google search on the

words: "Hubble Neptune video 2005". You should find this video on the first listed hit.

[toriseddie]

cool

[Questjump]

cool

[makutateridax200]

@EasyWolf31 yeah well i can't see jack cause of alberta weather

[equalitykills]

Those orbits inspired me to play Youtube snake.

Pause + Ctrl!

[EasyWolf31]

Ha, I will check that website that shows the ISS's trajectory, I dont think it passes over my latitude (45 north). Thx for the heads up :)

Sometimes I'm observing and satellites just zoom by by eyepiece, looks crazy :)

[skatergirl12334]

my class is studing on the planets ill wright about neptune neptune is my favorite planet