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kleinbl00  ·  3416 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pluto has a tail!

    Because Pluto and Charon are tidally locked to each other both in revolution and rotation, there is no push-pull like in the other small bodies listed above.

Ahhh! I did not know this. That does make it interesting. Thank you.

    I've seen Pluto with my own eyes through a 25" telescope as nothing more than a very faint dot that barely moved over two nights.

I had a 10" Dobsonian back in the day; I looked into the logistics of looking at Pluto and decided that it was well beyond my means. I think the biggest glass I've ever looked through was a 20". So this begs the question - what do you do and where do you do it? because about the only regret I have in moving from New Mexico to Washington was the lack of easy deep sky...