At the borderline of our imaging capacity, Puck is a shapeless rocky moonlet circling Uranus very close at a distance of 86.010 km.
Its diameter, of only 162 km and distance, approximately 3 billion kilometers from the sun, makes it a challenging target for astrophotography.
Nevertheless, some surface features are discernable such as the bright stuff on the left side, possibly water or carbon dioxide ice, and a few craters scattered around its surface.
MEADE 14” LX200, SBIG ST2K. Exposure time: 50 seconds in high resolution.
Image development in CCDops, Maxim DL4 and Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended
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