Pluto

Pluto Detail:
Magnitude: 13.9
Diameter: 0.14"
Light time: 4h 13m 41.1s
4563 million km

Image Details aprox 10 stacked frames of 10s exposure captured in k3ccdtools, debayered in AVIraw, stacked in Registax, adjusted in photoshop.

200mm F5 newtonian with 0.6 focal reducer, SC1.5 toucam RAW mode.

Scattered cloud on 21st and heavy cloud on 23rd, with occasional thinning allowed a small number of frames to be captured.

20040821 2110UT

20040823 2100UT

Skymap...

A short animation...




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