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The dimmest eye through my telescope is about 11.5 and that is pushing its limit to magnitude 12. You will definitely need some larger scopes. With Pluto, very dark skies, lots of patience and may have to look in the same spot several nights in a row to see what little dot moves relative to the background sky. Moving very, very slowly. It may take a while to figure that one out. Meteor showers. There are no major meteor showers. No major meteor showers are active in September. We enter a bit of a low excitement of August. We do have some minor ones though. Right now, meteor dust from thousands of comets passing over the eons is visible before dawn as the zodiacal light. As sunlight reflecting off the dust creates a faint glow, you will need a very dark eastern horizon with no street lights nearby. Higher elevations get a better view too. The zodiacal light appears as a faint color to glow aligned with the ecliptic. That is the line that the sun and the planets, the invisible line that the sun and the planets follow across the sky. Or basically if you put a light bulb at the center of the earth, it would be the line that the equator would shine on. The imaginary line that would be across the sky where the equator is. On September mornings, well before dawn, the high angle of the ecliptic benefits views of it. The broad base of the glow is in Leo. As that constellation rises and narrows higher in the sky through Cancer and Gemini. Catch it on moonless nights in the third and fourth week of September for the darkest skies. Excerpt is from Astronomy Magazine, page, let's see, September 2025, page 29.