Pluto Timeline Animation

Here is a three frame animation of the movement of Pluto over a period of approximately two hours (one hour between frames). The imaging was done at the prime focus of a Takahashi FC-100DZ, 4-inch fluorite doublet refractor with a ZWO ASI678MC planetary-type camera. Image capture was with N.I.N.A. and the processing was done in PixInsight and Photoshop 2024.

I had some difficulty trying to match the quality and background sky darkness between these images since Pluto is fairly far south and in the worst part of my Bortle 7+ sky. Plus there were some intermittent high clouds throughout the night.

There are additional capture details in the captions.