Ceres and Friends (Ceres and Friends) (James R Potts)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Coma Berenices (Com) · Contains: IC 3327 · IC 3340 · IC 3365 · IC 3392 · IC 3409 · IC 3432 · IC 3435 · IC 3442 · IC 3453 · IC 3471 · IC 3522 · IC 3528 · IC 783 · IC 787 · IC 792 · IC 796 · IC 797 · IC 798 · IC 800 · M 100 · M 88 · NGC 4312 · NGC 4321 · NGC 4322 · NGC 4328 · NGC 4340 · NGC 4350 · NGC 4377 · NGC 4379 · NGC 4383 · And 11 more.

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Finally got a few hours of clear skies last night, first clear sky for me in over 2 weeks. Here is my attempt to image Ceres while it is still fairly close. Ceres is traveling less than half the speed of our most recent comet (c/2022 e3), but still does move quite a bit relative to its surrounding stars and galaxies. The mount tracked on the stars and captured several galaxies, including M100 & M88. I super imposed a few separate images to show Ceres movement during my 3.5 hour session. This was definitely more of a challenge than I expected, similar to trying to capture a comet. I may try to use APPs comet stacking to try and stack on Ceres, just to see what it shows.

Looking at this image on Astrobin is a bit frustrating as it looks much worse and much blotchier than the image I saved from Photoshop. But as I have heard from others, space is not perfectly black or clear.

Ceres is considered a Dwarf Planet, same as Pluto. Ceres has a diameter that is about the size of the state of Texas and about a 1/3 the size of Pluto. Ceres is the largest object in the asteroid belt and it lies between Mars and Jupiter. It is also the only dwarf planet located in the inner solar system. It was discovered in 1801 by Giuseppe Piazzi .

Kind of cool to realize there are objects in this image over 800 million light years away and in the forefront we have an asteroid just a little farther away from us than Mars.

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RA (center)	12h28m04s.18
RA (top/left)	12h19m54s.13
RA (top/right)	12h30m45s.30
RA (bottom/right)	12h36m13s.83
RA (bottom/left)	12h25m20s.14

Dec (center)	+15°27′27″.5
Dec (top/left)	+15°33′09″.6
Dec (top/right)	+13°35′56″.1
Dec (bottom/right)	+15°20′37″.6
Dec (bottom/left)	+17°18′55″.5

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