Neptune Medium:Fine Art In 2009 to celebrate the

In 2009 to celebrate the International Year of Astronomy

Webb ERO Production Team

the temperature of the equatorial region

Jakob SahnerPostprocessing: Jakob SahnerFinal Touches: Adrien Mauduit

after which he stacked the images (a process of averaging multiple exposures to reduce the noise)

Neptune Medium:Fine Art In 2009 to celebrate theThis picture of Neptune was produced from the last whole planet images taken through the green and orange filters on the Voyager 2 narrow angle camera. The images were taken at a range of 4. 4 million miles from the planet, 4 days and 20 hours before closest approach. The picture shows the Great Dark Spot and its companion bright smudge; on the west limb the fast moving bright feature called Scooter and the little dark spot are visible. These clouds