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As Florin correctly stated, it can't have been Pluto. You have probably looked at it and you have even gotten its light in your eyes. That little itty bitty shine just has no chance to make your retina do anything (edit: Interesting link in the comments. Might be that people actually can sense single photons. Doesn't help at all to see Pluto though).

Stellarium is a nice tool in order to check which star you might have confused with Pluto. This is what it has to offer:

The red crosshair is where Pluto should be and Stellarium doesn't bother to color a single pixel because Pluto is about 14.28 mag. 5 mag difference mean 100 times dimmer, so Pluto is at least 10000 times less bright than many of the stars that you see in this image, let alone the two planets.

My guess is that you have seen Pi Sagittarii (HIP 94141) which would be 2.85 mag and lines up nicely with the planets. Unless I'm wrong, it's roughly 37000 times brighter than Pluto

As Florin correctly stated, it can't have been Pluto. You have probably looked at it and you have even gotten its light in your eyes. That little itty bitty shine just has no chance to make your retina do anything (edit: Interesting link in the comments. Might be that people actually can sense single photons. Doesn't help at all to see Pluto though).

Stellarium is a nice tool in order to check which star you might have confused with Pluto. This is what it has to offer:

The red crosshair is where Pluto should be and Stellarium doesn't bother to color a single pixel because Pluto is about 14.28 mag. 5 mag difference mean 100 times dimmer, so Pluto is at least 10000 times less bright than many of the stars that you see in this image, let alone the two planets (Mars is about 26 times closer than Pluto atm.).

My guess is that you have seen Pi Sagittarii (HIP 94141) which would be 2.85 mag and lines up nicely with the planets. Unless I'm wrong, it's roughly 37000 times brighter than Pluto

As Florin correctly stated, it can't have been Pluto. You have probably looked at it and you have even gotten its light in your eyes. That little itty bitty shine just has no chance to make your retina do anything (edit: Interesting link in the comments. Might be that people actually can sense single photons. Doesn't help at all to see Pluto though).

Stellarium is a nice tool in order to check which star you might have confused with Pluto. This is what it has to offer:

The red crosshair is where Pluto should be and Stellarium doesn't bother to color a single pixel because Pluto is about 14.28 mag. 5 mag difference mean 100 times dimmer, so Pluto is far more than 10000 times less bright than most stars that you see in this image, let alone the two planets.

My guess is that you have seen Pi Sagittarii (HIP 94141) which would be 2.85 mag and lines up nicely with the planets. Unless I'm wrong, it's roughly 37000 times brighter than Pluto

As Florin correctly stated, it can't have been Pluto. You have probably looked at it and you have even gotten its light in your eyes. That little itty bitty shine just has no chance to make your retina do anything (edit: Interesting link in the comments. Might be that people actually can sense single photons. Doesn't help at all to see Pluto though).

Stellarium is a nice tool in order to check which star you might have confused with Pluto. This is what it has to offer:

The red crosshair is where Pluto should be and Stellarium doesn't bother to color a single pixel because Pluto is about 14.28 mag. 5 mag difference mean 100 times dimmer, so Pluto is at least 10000 times less bright than many of the stars that you see in this image, let alone the two planets.

My guess is that you have seen Pi Sagittarii (HIP 94141) which would be 2.85 mag and lines up nicely with the planets. Unless I'm wrong, it's roughly 37000 times brighter than Pluto

As Florin correctly stated, it can't have been Pluto. You have probably looked at it and you have even gotten its light in your eyes. That little itty bitty shine just has no chance to make your retina do anything (edit: Interesting link in the comments. Might be that people can sense single photons. Doesn't help at all to see Pluto though).

Stellarium is a nice tool in order to check which star you might have confused with Pluto. This is what it has to offer:

The red crosshair is where pluto should be and Stellarium doesn't bother to color a pixel because Pluto is about 14 mag. 5 mag difference mean 100 times dimmer, so Pluto is far more than 10000 times less bright than most stars that you see in this image, let alone the two planets.

My guess is that you have seen Pi Sagittarii (HIP 94141) which would be 2.85 mag and lines up nicely with the planets.

As Florin correctly stated, it can't have been Pluto. You have probably looked at it and you have even gotten its light in your eyes. That little itty bitty shine just has no chance to make your retina do anything (edit: Interesting link in the comments. Might be that people actually can sense single photons. Doesn't help at all to see Pluto though).

Stellarium is a nice tool in order to check which star you might have confused with Pluto. This is what it has to offer:

The red crosshair is where Pluto should be and Stellarium doesn't bother to color a single pixel because Pluto is about 14.28 mag. 5 mag difference mean 100 times dimmer, so Pluto is far more than 10000 times less bright than most stars that you see in this image, let alone the two planets.

My guess is that you have seen Pi Sagittarii (HIP 94141) which would be 2.85 mag and lines up nicely with the planets. Unless I'm wrong, it's roughly 37000 times brighter than Pluto