Pluto!

[lukebl]

Hi all,

I haven't done any nocturnal imaging for months, so here's the result of my annual pilgrimmage to Pluto. I always like to capture it once a year. In my youth this was always an almost magical object, way beyond the reach of my modest equipment.

It currently only reaches an elevation of 17 degrees here in Sagittarius, so it was just skimming the hedges and skyglow. At that elevation, I suspect there would be no chance of seeing it visually here, even with a 20" dob, particularly with the miriad of stars of similar magnitude around it. Or has anyone here managed it? The bright star just lower left of Pluto is of 9.5 magnitude.

A very quick mono capture of 8 x 60 second exposures, SXVF-H9, 250mm f/4.7 Newtonian. No darks or flats. There was a lot of gradient due to big light pollution at this elevation.

[emadmoussa]

Funny enough, last night I was thinking about Pluto and how to capture it. Cool stuff!!!

[Jannis]

That thiny little thing there is pluto? wow. I knew it wasn't an easy capture, but didn't think it would be That small and dim.

[lukebl]

... didn't think it would be That small and dim.

Aye. It's small and dim. Like me.

[DaveGarland]

Forgive me for asking this, but which one is it?

[dweller25]

Forgive me for asking this, but which one is it?

LOL - probably the one with the big yellow arrow next to it !!

[Jannis]

Forgive me for asking this, but which one is it?

I made a closer crop of the pic he uploaded. I belive this one is pluto.

[lukebl]

Forgive me for asking this, but which one is it?

Maybe the animated gif with the arrow doesn't work on some operating systems.

Here's the basic jpeg:

[DaveGarland]

Ah great. Thanks for that. Good work lukebl

[Chappers88]

Good catch that!