Nine years and 4,800 million kilometers were needed for the New Horizons spacecraft took this picture of Pluto I’ve added to an image I made almost three years ago.
This time software scanned the sky where to move the cursor in a certain segment of the sky, came the word
“Pluto,” which is nothing more than the name of slut but in English. Wow! I said, Pluto is walking and although small with long exposure will surely portrayed, as well now passes to the side of Messier object 25, an attractive and different open cluster.
So I set to work and 22 last August, we spent just over an hour. By revealing the picture I took a terrible and also a pleasant surprise, because although I knew that Messier 25 is located in the densely populated region of stars at the center of the Milky Way, when I made the plan to photograph Pluto not take due consciousness this, that because the software only as a parameter star had to +4 brightness, ie all those that can be easily seen with the naked eye.
Now revealed the image in digital form, Of course, I began to wonder which of all the stars that are there is Pluto, so I started to upload files stars, all increasingly tenuous and names more and more scientists, names as “GSC 6274: 1527″ with sorting techniques started by the great amateur astronomer Henrietta Leavitt who created in the early twentieth century, the basis for measuring the brightness of the stars and the variability of the same, and this based on negative images, all a real achievement tracking information.
Without the visual acuity of Herietta, but catalogs of stars and she later generations of astronomers made, I decided on the paths marked with arrows in the picture, always with the chance someone could say that it was not.
To my fortune, he saw the photo Monterrey astronomer Pedro Valdes, who decided to analyze the picture and conclude that effectively signaled that corresponds to the dim light emitting dwarf planet Pluto, which really made my day, because I had taken three to conclude that was that.
Just as informative reason, Pluto was no longer planet since 2006 based on a convention of astronomers professionals.
This after NASA found in 2002 and 2004 others, now also, dwarf planets. We do not enter this time in the controversy if they are or are not planets, asteroids or correct the new classification of dwarf planets, but at least here we have it in the original resolution of 9 pixels within the pixels of the digital sensor 8’300,000 used.
It’s a wonder a brilliant achievement that NASA is easier said than be pending for more than nine years of a ship, which up to the dwarf planet Pluto with perfect precision to take pictures never before . views of the area and find comprehensive information on this planet in the far reaches of our solar system
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