Monitoring Neptune's atmosphere with a combination of small and large telescopes: The role of Spanish Telescopes in a global international campaign
Abstract
Neptune's atmosphere is covered by tropospheric clouds and hazes that evolve in timescales of days, months and years. Given the small apparent size of Neptune's disk (2.4"), there are outstanding difficulties in obtaining sufficient high-resolution data to trace Neptune's atmospheric dynamics and study its variability. Here we present results of an international campaign to observe Neptune and we focus in the potential of Spanish Telescopes to advance in the knowledge of its atmosphere.
- Publication:
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XIV.0 Scientific Meeting (virtual) of the Spanish Astronomical Society
- Pub Date:
- July 2020
- Bibcode:
- 2020sea..confE.102H