Jul 2015 ~ Pluto & 4 Moons + Charon

Astro Aatif
Pluto and Charon in natural color and approximate relative brightness,
to scale in both size and distance from each other.

Using calibrated MVIC image data captured by New Horizons
in July 2015 and processed by "Alex Parker"...
Pluto and Charon are about 19,640 km apart.



Walter Pullen says:

• Charon is large enough relative to Pluto,
  that both Pluto and Charon orbit the barycenter
  or center of gravity between them
  (which is located about one Pluto radius away from Pluto's surface).
  
  Here's an astronomically accurate rendition of
  their relative sizes and how they
  (and Pluto's other four moons) orbit:
  
  http://www.astrolog.org/astrolog/screen/moonsplu.gif