ALPO Observations of the Remote Planets in 2013 - 2014

This report summarizes observations of Neptune which were submitted to the writer in late 2013 and early 2014. Several red/near-infrared images of both planets show albedo features. Uranus shows bright belts, whereas Neptune shows a large bright spot. Furthermore, the writer suggests that a single bright spot developed on Neptune between August 8 and 15, 2013, was centered at 48° ± 7° S and had a rotation period of 16.13 hours. The selected normalized magnitude values of Uranus are: B(1,0) = -6.654 ± 0.009 and V(1,0) = -7.125 ± 0.012. The corresponding values for Neptune are: B(1,0) = -6.613 ± 0.012 and V(1,0) = -7.011 ± 0.009.