From: "Milton Aupperle" <milton@outcastsoft.com>

Date: July 2, 2006 5:45:42 PM MDT

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Pluto's Motion

Hi Folks;

Even though we've had some cloud free nights lately, transparecny has

been really bad. However I managed to image Pluto on two nights this week.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Astro_IIDC/files/Planetary/Pluto_20060626_0701_MJA.jpg

Pluto only gets a maximum of 22 degrees above the horizon here, so I

was shooting through a lot of light polluted haze.

I can only imagine what it must have been like for Clyde Tombaugh when

he was searching for Pluto with photographic plates and doing blink

comparisons to find it.

I also took another image of M11, but without the dust bunny haloes.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Astro_IIDC/files/DSO/M11_2006_07_01_MJA.jpg

Clear Skies (I've given up on Dark Skies)..

Milton J. Aupperle

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