Thanks for the ToSeeking - yeah I see why it is hard to keep up with his prolific posting and introducing new things into the discussion ("Iapetus is artificial" was a real howler).
Your mythology is absolutely correct - but nope, Charon is not the reddest object inside the orbit of Pluto - BTW I don't think you can seperate the pair with amateur equipment - The Pluto/Charon system together is a challenge even to moderate-to-large amateur stuff and Charon was not discovered (by Pros, of course, as was Pluto itself) before 1970.
So the race is still on!
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