how bigof a telescope would be required to make out thefine details of plutos surface?

i'm not sure you could(at least from earth). all the pictures i have seen of pluto were just blurry dots.

It depends of where you live as well; smogged-up air and cloud cover can greatly obscure one's view of the heavens.

yeah, I was thinking more of a space telescope, I've seen the hubble images of pluto and like yourdadonapogos said they look pretty much like giant pixels

yeah, I was thinking more of a space telescope, I've seen the hubble images of pluto and like yourdadonapogos said they look pretty much like giant pixels

 

It would take a telescope with an aperture of about 32,000 in. to resolve objects as small as 5 km on the surface of Pluto.

wow, thats big, what detail is the hubble able to resolve then, I always thought that the hubble had a good 20 kilometer resolution

From my astronomy adventures, I don't think that you can "see" anything beyond Saturn. When they start to turn into dots on conventional (affordable) telescopes, it simply becomes absurd to observe them. Pluto is certianly out of the question.

wow, thats big, what detail is the hubble able to resolve then, I always thought that the hubble had a good 20 kilometer resolution

 

The Hubble has a resolution of .1 arc-secs.