Eris (2003 UB313) - 19th Sept from Brisbane

[Dennis]

Hello,

I've been meaning to grab this "new" dwarf planet for a couple of weeks now, but poor weather has thwarted me. Last night we had a (temporary) break in the clouds and between sets of cloud, I was able to grab 3 x 10 minute exposures and managed to capture the mag 18.78 body.

Several PGC designation galaxies are scattered throughout the field, which is approx 16x10 arc mins.

C9.25, F6.3 Reducer/Corrector, SBIG ST7E, Prime Focus, 3 x 10 min exposures.

Cheers

Dennis

[iceman]

Well done Dennis, interesting to see how dim it is, but still brighter than Pluto!

[janoskiss]

Wow Dennis! Some real faint objects in there.

Isn't Pluto mag 14?!

[iceman]

Whoops, I meant bigger than Pluto. Thanks.

[Dennis]

Thanks guys. When the raw image first displayed on the notebook display, noise, warts and all, I thought something had gone wrong due to the presence all those faint, fuzzy PGC's. Not quite Hubble deep field though.;)

Cheers

Dennis

[beren]

:thumbsup: Top work Dennis , very interesting thanks for sharing

[Lee]

That is very cool.... I like the galaxies more than the rock! :P

[[1ponders]]

Arrgghhh Dennis, me lad, ye be a clever scurvy dawg :thumbsup:

Nice shootin' Tex ;)

[ballaratdragons]

I'm with Lee! The Galaxies are excellent!!!!

But congrats on catching Eris, errr, Xena, errr, ummmm 2003UB313. Well done.