Name: CRESCENTS OF NEPTUNE AND ITS SATELLITE TRITON
Brand: VOYAGER 2
Price: 1400.00 GBP
Availability: SoldOut

Vintage chromogenic print on resin coated Kodak paper, “This paper manufactured by Kodak” watermarks on the verso, NASA JPL caption affixed to the verso along with two later captions "Far Encounter - Eric Burgess The Neptune System Figure 6-22"

8 x 10in. (20.3 x 25.4cm.)

From the collection of Mike Acs
Acquired from the collection of Eric Burgess (1920-2005)

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Lot Essay

Voyager 2 is the only Spacecraft to have visited the ice giant Neptune. It continues to travel into interstellar space.

[NASA caption]
This dramatic view of the crescents of Neptune and Triton was acquired by Voyager 2 approximately 3 days, 6 and one-half hours after its closest approach to Neptune. The spacecraft is now plunging southward at an angle of 48 degrees to the plane of the ecliptic. This direction, combined with the current season of southern summer in the Neptune system, gives this picture its unique geometry. The spacecraft was at a distance of 4.86 million kilometers (3 million miles) from Neptune when these images were shuttered so the smallest detail discernible is approximately 90 kilometers (56 miles). Color was produced using images taken through the narrow-angle camera's clear, orange and green filters. Neptune does not appear as blue from this viewpoint because the forward scattering nature of its atmosphere is more important than its absorption of red light at this high phase angle (134 degrees).