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- astronomy miscellany (3)
- Looking up (97)
- oddities & curiosities (28)
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- 2. March 2010: ISS flys by Orion
- 16. February 2010: Vesta moving right along...
- 16. February 2010: Venus moves to evening "star" status
- 7. February 2010: Mars in the Beehive open star cluster
- 4. February 2010: Mars...live
- 26. January 2010: big dish
- 25. January 2010: it's time to get your Mars on.....
- 21. January 2010: Stars in the sky
- 19. January 2010: the sky is falling..............
- 17. January 2010: Moon and Jupiter
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Ceres on the move
The asteroid Ceres is on the move and is headed toward a bright opposition on Feb. 25th. As shown above, the image on the left was made Jan. 30 and the one on the right Jan. 31.
Look around the left of center in each frame for the bright dot that changed position, that’s the asteroid Ceres. We may be able to see it naked eye at opposition when it brightens to magnitude 6.9, but you’ll need good sky and seeing conditions.
Currently it’s binocular bright, and located in an easy star field. The bright star in the images above toward the right of the frame is Delta Leonis. Piece of cake since it’s the star at the hip of Leo.
Keep an eye on it since Ceres is not going to be this close to Earth again until 4164…. ( at opposition it will be 1.5832 a.u. away) Pretty dang cool if you ask me!