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Community photo entitled  by Peter Welch on 01/28/2020 at San Diego, CA  USA

On 01/28/2020 06:43 pm by Peter Welch| San Diego, CA USA

Neptune! My goal was to photograph the moon + Venus conjunction, with overexposing the moon to pickup the earthshine. Upon closer inspection, I could easily see Phi Aquarii (the star that is being mis-identified as Neptune), and then... Neptune! Not sure if this will show up on a web image, but thought I'd share with you anyway. I love Earth Sky and read everything you all put out. Thanks for keeping us backyard astronomers engaged! :-)

Sony A7RIV with Rokinon 135mm, 1/8 sec, f/2.0, ISO 3200

Increased contrast, highlights, clarity, removed noise.