Figure 4 from A Southern Sky and Galactic Plane Survey for Bright Kuiper Belt Objects

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A Southern Sky and Galactic Plane Survey for Bright Kuiper Belt Objects

Authors: Scott S. Sheppard, Andrzej Udalski, Chadwick Trujillo, Marcin Kubiak, Grzegorz Pietrzynski, Radoslaw Poleski, Igor Soszynski, Michal K. Szymański, and Krzysztof Ulaczyk

Sheppard et al. 2011 The Astronomical Journal 142 98.

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Caption: Figure 4.

Difference image of the Pluto fields (Figure 3) showing the removal of the steady-state background of stars. The motion of Pluto is clearly revealed in the difference image as a positive (bright) and negative (dark) point from the subtraction process of the two individual images.

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