Pluto

[Cyberman]

Hello, please see attached gif of pluto moving across sagitarius in August.
4x 60sec frames
250 quattro reflector, canon 600D
Cheers,Robert

(It'll run again if you click on the opened image again to open it in it's own window. Sorry just learning)

[AstroViking]

Hi Rob,

That's really cool. It never ceased to amaze me that amateurs like you and I are able to capture images of tiny objects such huge distances away...

[Cyberman]

Thanks Steve. It was a sort of side project. I took a photo of Pluto to see if it could be seen. There were so many similar dots I wasn’t certain. I imaged the Pluto over a few nights while I was imagining the lagoon neb. Took a while to process as I had to learn how to zoom and frame each frame and then learn how to make gif. Also had to use sky-map to work out which dots were stars and which were Pluto.
Cheers, Rob

[Crater101]

Amazing bit of work to capture that mate, very well done!

[oska]

Cool cap. Thanks for sharing.

[Dave882]

Great shots!

[AdamJL]

Love it, nice work!

[iborg]

Hi Rob


You've done a nice neat job. I have tried to do something similar with Vesta, but, haven't figured out to align the individual shots.



So. how did you do this?


Philip

[Cyberman]

Thanks Warren, John, David and Adam.
Phillip, I used windows photo . Using edit function , 1. zoom with mouse wheel(same amount for each frame), 2.crop (each frame to same pixel size), 3.allign each frame to same position by picking a star on 2 borders and putting in same position ( left clickand hold to move frame).
You can also write on the frame.
I had 2 windows open to compare with first frame processed to get the same zoom, crop and allignment.
Good luck,Rob

PS I used GIMP to make a gif (need to import in layers and need to resize when exporting to get under the 200KB limit for showing on IIS)