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Marcus |
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Newbie Status: offline Registered: 05/16/04 Posts: 13 |
Last night was very clear. If the moon hadn't been so bright, I could have seen a lot more. I saw M35, M36, M37, M38, M92, and the highlight of the night, M51 (the Whirlpool Galaxy). M51 took some effort to see. Though I knew I had my scope on the right place, I had to use averted vision and really concentrate to see it, but eventually I could make out its nucleus and traces of the bands around it. Absolutely amazing. |
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Sage Status: online Registered: 06/19/03 Posts: 461 |
Marcus, I'm not 100% sure, but I think that you'd have to actually see some movement to know beyond a shadow of doubt that what the ETX centered for you was indeedactually Ceres. The only other possibility would have been to have carefully studied a star chart of that area for the moment of the observation. Bob Moody |
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Marcus |
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Newbie Status: offline Registered: 05/16/04 Posts: 13 |
Your wish is my command! |
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Anonymous: TexasJagsFan |
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Do you know what the current magnitude Ceres is running? |
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Marcus |
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Newbie Status: offline Registered: 05/16/04 Posts: 13 |
Jon - According to heavens-above.com, Ceres is currently at Mag. 8.7. |
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Anonymous: TexasJagsFan |
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Thanks! |
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