I finally went out and tried for Pluto and I nailed the sucker.
The night before last, I located the field were pluto should have been and made a sketch. I already hade a suspect in mind --a ~14th magnitude blip that wasn't on Sky and Telescope's chart-- but just to be sure, I found the same field and sketched it again last night. Sure enough, my suspect had moved a couple of arcminutes.
I have finally seen all 9 planets.
The night before last, I located the field were pluto should have been and made a sketch. I already hade a suspect in mind --a ~14th magnitude blip that wasn't on Sky and Telescope's chart-- but just to be sure, I found the same field and sketched it again last night. Sure enough, my suspect had moved a couple of arcminutes.
I have finally seen all 9 planets.
"Though parted by a gulf more impassable than any sea, the telescope lets us traverse what otherwise had been barred and lands us at last above the shores we went forth to seek. Real the journey is, though incorporeal in kind. Since the seeing strange sights is the essence of all far wanderings, it is as truly tavel so the eye arrive as if the body kept it company." Pervcival Lowell
