ALPO Observations of the Remote Planets in 2014-2015
Abstract
Over 40 individuals submitted images or measurements of the remote planets in 2014-2015. The selected normalized magnitudes of Uranus are -6.30 ± 0.03, -6.633 ± 0.014 and -7.133 ± 0.010 for the U, B and V filters, respectively; the corresponding values for Neptune are -6.46 ± 0.02, -6.586 ± 0.012 and -6.998 ± 0.011. The planetographic latitudes of two bright belts on Uranus are reported. Based on unfiltered CCD images, it is concluded that the amplitude of Pluto's light curve may have dropped a little since the early 1980s, and the brightness difference between Uranus' two largest moons (Titania and Oberon) has not changed much since 2002.
- Publication:
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Journal of the Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers, the Strolling Astronomer
- Pub Date:
- October 2015
- Bibcode:
- 2015JALPO..57d..48S