Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Virgo (Vir)  ·  Contains:  IC 810  ·  M 90  ·  NGC 4569  ·  NGC 4584  ·  NGC 4620  ·  NGC 4639
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Tiflis, Chloris und Ceres + M90, Patrick
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Tiflis, Chloris und Ceres + M90

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Tiflis, Chloris und Ceres + M90

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Searching for my next target in Stellarium, i noticed that Ceres was near M90. So the idea was to capture both in one image.
As i figured out too late, the data for asteroid locations in Stellarium was not up-to-date on my PC.
Reason for my late realization was also, that i mistook another asteroid for Ceres, which wasnt even shown in Stellarium. That asteroid turned out to be Chloris (middle).
Luckily, Ceres (left) still found his way into the framing :-)
As i processed the image, i found a third asteroid on my image, which is called Tiflis (right).

According to Wikipedia, Tiflis is only around 20km big, Chloris roughly 120km and Ceres over 900km.
This roughly correlates with the brightness of the asteroids on my image, which makes (sort of) sense, since all three are part of the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

I also made a cropped gif, which shows the movement in a time span of around 4h40m.

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Title: Animation of Tiflis, Chloris und Ceres

Description: Zoomed-in animation of the three asteroids making their way along the asteroid belt.

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