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English: Edit 2024 Jan 17: I uploaded a reprocessed version of this with less saturation and a bit better alignment of the planet and clouds. The pink isn't as obvious, but is still there.

And here's my take on a three-color visible light image of Neptune from Voyager 2. I was very interested to see the pink features in the clouds and northern pole come about with no effort whatsoever. The filter choices I think are a bit wider than the Hubble filters, so the image came out less saturated. I went ahead and enhanced the saturation of this image a bit after deciding it probably was a bit too pale.

What really surprises me about this is that I can't find any other images quite like it. Is Neptune really purplish/pink in its north pole and around its limb? Is it decorated with bright, pinkish clouds? I wish I could say for sure. It is different enough that I doubt myself significantly. Nonetheless, I wish to share it.

I have noted that most images utilize the Voyager "Orange" filter for red light, but when I looked at the filter plots I decided it would be more appropriate to use the "Green" filter, and the same pattern followed for the other two channels. I have made a note of the central wavelength of the filters in my list here. You can see if you agree with my choices. I used Photoshop's puppet warp feature to align the brighter clouds.

Red: Voyager 2/ISS 585nm "Green" Filter (C1115234_RAW) Green: Voyager 2/ISS 480nm "Blue" Filter (C1115216_RAW)

Blue: Voyager 2/ISS 400nm "Violet" Filter (C1115210_RAW)