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English: Animation of three 420-second exposures of Neptune's irregular moon Neso, imaged as a slow-moving 25th magnitude object by Brett J. Gladman et al. with the ESO's VLT-FORS1 imager on 3 September 2002. These images were taken as part of follow-up observations of Neptune's five irregular moons discovered by Gladman et al. in the month before (August 2002).
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Observational Metadata from the ESO's Science Archive Facility: FORS1.2002-09-03T02:07:01.942
Author Brett J. Gladman et al./European Southern Observatory
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