Any of you guys know where there's a current finder chart (or photo) for pluto that goes down to mag 14 or 15? I'm trying to see it with a 5.5" refractor which is really pushing it I know. I can see all the mag 12 stars on my chart no problem and there are other "averted vision" dots in amongst them but I've no idea which one is pluto. It's hard to use the movement method cos these are right at the very, very edge of perception so I can't sketch them accurately. I figure if I knew when pluto was near a mag 12 star and that there were no other faint stars around I'd have him!
I managed to see the quasar 3c273 with this scope no sweat at all, but I had someone's astrophotograph to go on that showed stars many magnitudes fainter. if any of you guys have a photo of pluto from the last week or so that would be a great help too
all the best
Tim
I managed to see the quasar 3c273 with this scope no sweat at all, but I had someone's astrophotograph to go on that showed stars many magnitudes fainter. if any of you guys have a photo of pluto from the last week or so that would be a great help too
all the best
Tim
