7/26/2023 0 Comments Hawaii telescope photoThey had hoped to track characteristics of very bright features previously seen on the planet, but the detail in the images were beyond their expectations. The team captured the Neptune images on five nights of observing on Keck II between June 8 and 28 of this year. 25, 2000) at the American Astronomical Society’s Division of Planetary Sciences meeting in Pasadena, Cal. The team – which included astronomers from the University of California, Berkeley Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) the California Institute of Technology, or Caltech and UCLA – presented the near-infrared images of the giant ice planet today (OCT. ![]() MAUNA KEA, Hawaii (October 1st, 2000) Astronomers observing with the adaptive optics instrument on the Keck II Telescope have obtained the best pictures yet of the planet Neptune, showing an upper atmosphere rich with moving features such as vortices, waves and narrowly spaced bands of clouds similar to those present around Jupiter. These images were obtained on June 18, 2000. Inside the bright epsilon ring, three fainter rings can be discerned, which consist of multiple ringlets. The latter features are located well above the methane haze in altitude. Clearly visible are the methane haze layer on Uranus's south polar cap and the tiny cloud features at high northern latitudes. The planet itself is artificially darkened by a factor of 20. ![]() The image uses infrared light with a wavelength of 2 micro-meters to outline the planet and its rings in reflected sunlight. Image of the planet Uranus taken using the new adaptive optics system at the 10-meter diameter Keck II Telescope on the Mauna Kea volcano in Hawaii.
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