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Pluto!!
Pluto!! by romadave
Here is Pluto beginning to cross Bernard 92, a dark nebula located in Messier 24. Pluto is the very faint dot just below the capital 'P' in Pluto. It looks like the neighboring stars. There is an asterism of magnitude 14.0 stars that looks like an 'X' just to the left of Pluto. The planet is also about magnitude 14 and would blend in with the background stars if not for the Dark Nebula to highlight it.
Keywords: CG-5, travelscope, Pluto, Travel-Scope-70-Portable-Telescope, CG-5-Computerized-Mount-Computerized-Telescope
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| Image Stats |
| Celestron Equipment |
Travel Scope 70 Portable Telescope (21035), CG-5 Computerized Mount Computerized Telescope (91518) |
| Additional Equipment |
Astro Tech 8in Imaging Newtonian; coma corrector; travelscope for guidescope; laptop with PHD guiding software and Nebulosity from Stark Labs; Adobe. |
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Canon Rebel XT |
| Exposure Time |
30 sec x 15 |
| Software |
Nebulosity |
| Date/Time Taken |
07.04.2010 01:10 |
| Location |
Denton, TX |
| Upload Date: |
07.06.2010 09:50 |
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laurele
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Join Date: 07.12.2010
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Kudos to you for acccurately referring to Pluto as a planet, which it is! Only four percent of the IAU voted on the controversial demotion, and most are not planetary scientists. Their decision was immediately rejected in a formal petition by hundreds of professional astronomers led by Dr. Alan Stern, Principal Investigator of NASA's New Horizons mission to Pluto. Stern, who authored the term "dwarf planet," never meant for dwarf planets to not be considered planets at all.
I can't wait to see Pluto through a telescope personally. Some friends and I tried using a 14-inch at a dark sky site on July 3, but we couldn't get the exact location of the dark nebula area. I can't wait to try again! |
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07.12.2010 19:07 |
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