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Old 04-04-2018, 01:23 AM
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Rkonrad (Richard)
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Welcome to the forums Grant and congrats on your 5 inch SCT nice portable scope , one cant see Pluto as a planet rather as a star with at least a 8 inch in a dark site and even then you have to observe over a period (days) to see it move .
I dont think I have seen it in many years of observing only in a professional observatory, and then it looked like a dim star.
I used to have a 130 Skyprodigy and just for fun told it to go to Pluto , but knew I could not see its only the stars close to it , that was is the middle of the karoo area in RSA no lights in sight besides the train I was on ,

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