Pluto tracked for 3 days

[acarleton (Aidan)]

well it is hard to follow some of the great photos and time lapses that have been uploaded recently but i thought i would put up my recent efforts.

i tracked everyone's favorite dwarf planet for 3 nights (from the center of Sydney) as it proceeded through Sagittarius and managed to compile a slide show of it.

not the prettiest of pictures due to LP, but i was happy just to pick it up.

10" newtonian
canon 600D
NEQ6
400 seconds at ISO 800

video available at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipkQsndcFXE

[madwayne (Wayne)]

Excellent stuff Aidan, I thoroughly enjoyed that video.

Wayne

[johnnyt123 (John)]

I love this.

I have been wanting to do this for so long.......

Well done mate!!!!

[cometcatcher (Kevin)]

Cool.

I will get around to it one year also.

[Ric]

Nice work Aidan

Definitely not the easiest of targets.

[johnnyjetski (John)]

Congratulations!.......Really amazing effort mag 14 from centre of Sydney with 10 inch newtonian.

John

[acarleton (Aidan)]

Thanks all for the comments

i did some quick calculations and the angular size of Pluto at the moment is equivalent to the head of a pin from around 3.9 kilometers away.

[pluto (Hugh)]

Wonderful!, what a great little project

[acarleton (Aidan)]

Originally Posted by pluto

Wonderful!, what a great little project

Thanks