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Ok ... I tried, but no banana (or Pluto for that matter either).
I am RIGHT on the nose position wise (and somewhat proud of that) but I've gone as far as I can. I know EXACTLY where Pluto should be, the local stars in ep range ARE very distinctive in pattern, and I have them in sight - most of them anyway, but Pluto and the 2 little stars flanking it closely are invisible to me no matter how long or how averted I look.
Messing around with Starry Night I reckon I'm able to see the stars down to magnitude 12, but with Pluto at mag 13.8 I'm falling short by almost 2 full magnitudes.
[First image is the stars I can see - not exactly same fov as eyepiece, but the stars that are sufficiently bright to be visible. Second image is what I NEED to see, with Pluto indicated]
It has been fun trying though, and I got a heck of a lot closer than I thought I would. I can at least say that if it WAS visible to me tonight I would definitely have seen it!
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