Three Degrees of Separation

Don't you just love Science and Technology?

My above graphic shows the route taken by the photons of light from Pluto at the edge of our solar system, 4.67 billion miles or 7.5 billion Kilometres, to our home in Oulton Broad. This represents only half the journey.  These photons had already travelled from our Sun out to Pluto to be reflected back towards Earth.  Plucky little transcendental massless particles!

I created the following image from the data set I received from the Bradford Robotic Telescope.

Combination of two images taken on two nights approximately 5 days apart which shows Pluto moving along its elliptical solar orbit infront of the more or less static backdrop of stars in the Constellation Sagittarius.

Now I'm sharing the impact of those photons with the peoples of the Earth via the Internet.  How fantastic is that?

Credits: NASA, The Bradford Robotic Telescope and Wikipedia