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Ceres in between M91 and M100, Benno Schneider

Ceres in between M91 and M100

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Ceres in between M91 and M100, Benno Schneider

Ceres in between M91 and M100

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Ceres fly by in between M91 and M100. Exposures taken from March 13 to 26. 

The image is a composite of seven exposures in the luminance and the blue channel. Every image has been plate solved and the position of Ceres has then been read with 2 arc-seconds precision. The coordinates identified are used with a project of my local astronomy club. We re-experience the discovery of dwarf planet Ceres in 1801 by Giuseppe Piazzi as well as the rediscovery with the help of Carl Friedrich Gauß' mathematics. In parallel colleges from the club do the same with their own telescopes and even visually in the club's observatory with a thread ocular.

Our very first finding is that Piazzi, Gauß, and their colleagues back in the beginning of the 19th century are real heroes. 

I would like to thank Ernesto from telescope.live for his support with my project.

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Ceres in between M91 and M100, Benno Schneider