http://www.space.com/17784-best-pluto-photo-from-earth-picture.html
September 26, 2012 - Space.com
A ground-based telescope has snapped the sharpest image yet of Pluto and its moon Charon taken in visible light from Earth.
The Gemini North 8-meter telescope on Mauna Kea, Hawai'i captured the photo of the dwarf planet
and its companion using a technique called reconstructive speckle
imaging. The resulting image clearly shows the two bodies, which are
nearly 3.7 billion miles (6 billion kilometers) from the sun — about 40
times the distance between the sun and Earth.
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