Pluto Animation

[Rob_Jn]

Took these two frames on 23rd and 24th July, composed of 10x5s subs each. Deep in the Sagittarius Milky Way at nearly -19 deg. declination, Pluto is almost lost amongst the stars! The field is cropped to about 0.25deg.

(I had to think twice which section to post this in )

Thanks for looking,

Rob.

[hayju01]

Nice shot!

[SkyJamie]

Great stuff Rob

Jamie

[MisterBill]

Very nice, thanks for sharing.

Bill

[Merlin66]

Good catch!

It almost looks like a planet ;-)

[Rob]

Fantastic.. very well done there

Rob

[Doc]

I love this type of shot. Well done

[foundaplanet]

Good one and nice to see..

[sulaco]

Takes asecond to see what your looking at but when you notice it it's quite amazing

[Rob_Jn]

Good catch!

It almost looks like a planet ;-)

Thanks everyone!

Rob

[bamus]

Great stuff, this is kind of astrophotography I think I will be heading too. Got bored with doing again and again same popular DS objects. Want to do something different, and I think taking this kind of astrophotography (+ small comets, asteroids, variable stars, something else?) will be the way of doing it.

[davo]

Pluto! Super stuff :-)

[Revs]

It's always nice seeing a good quality deep sky or planetary image, but I think I like this kind of image the most. Excellent, cheers for posting

[Rob_Jn]

Great stuff, this is kind of astrophotography I think I will be heading too. Got bored with doing again and again same popular DS objects. Want to do something different, and I think taking this kind of astrophotography (+ small comets, asteroids, variable stars, something else?) will be the way of doing it.

A bit of fun but it's nice to do this sort of thing, very easy to do without all the hassle of long exposures/guiding etc. Asteroids are nice to follow and measure their positions in Astrometrica, it's amazing how accurate you can get. Add spectroscopy to the list using a Staranalyser grating, a bit of a learning curve but another pursuit where acquiring the images isn't too time consuming.

Rob