Yes, I did get this from a Reddit post. :)
It's amazing to me that this is the first time that we're going to actually get good pictures of Pluto. The best "picture", i.e. what we think Pluto looks like we've ever had before this flyby are like this: And now we're receiving awesome high quality pictures of a planet (almost!) whose orbit is so eccentric and long that one run around the sun takes about 248 years!
Just remember that we are going to get only a few images after the flyby, then more science, then in September, we start getting the images sent to us, the low rez first then the higher rez imagery. Talking about space for the next few months, between Dawn and New Horizons, is going to be a hell of a fun time.
I have seen Pluto with my own eyes. To think that something that I've seen as nothing more than a speck of light is now growing into its own world, a place we have never seen before, hell this is a type of world we have never seen before, is amazing. Pluto takes a 14" or larger telescope, dark skies, steady air, an expensive star chart, and two-three days of observing to make sure that you are looking at Pluto and not a random faint star. All that work to look at a speck of light may seem like a waste of time, and I understand that sentiment. However.... How many of you out there can say that a piece of Pluto has literally touched you? A photon of light that left the sun, hit Pluto, then bounced back to earth ended its journey in my retina. My brain was able to take that physical act and understand that I am looking at a tiny ball of ice 4 light-hours away. Astronomy reminds me that I am not more than a speck in a cosmos that is bigger than I can ever understand. And it is wonderful.