Two side-by-side starfield photographs with an arrow pointing to Pluto, visible only as a faint point of light in the same star field on two different nights three days apart.

astrophotography / planets

Pluto, 4.97 Billion Kilometers Away

Pluto is indistinguishable from a background star in a single frame; only by comparing this field shot on 15 August 2020 with another taken three nights later does its slow drift against the fixed stars give it away.

Location
Agra, India
Date
15 August 2020