The Hyades with Ceres

[Nik271]

The largest asteroid Ceres is passing very close to Aldebaran this week. I took this short stacked image of the Hyades (10x2 seconds from a tripod). The position of Ceres ( at 1 Nov 21:00 UT) is marked in the second photo. It shoud move fairly rapidly in the coming days.

 

 

 

 

[Stu]

Great shot @Nik271, I spotted it through my 10x50 binos last night. It formed a nice triangle with Aldebaran and HD29117.

[Alan White]

Thanks Nik, that image with the arrow is very helpful, I have pinched it and used it as a circular e-mail ti my astro club.
I hope you don't mind me using it.

I looked at this last night, but could not get my head around which was Ceres or not?
 

[Laurieast]

9 pm tonight 02/11/21 

[Nik271]

1 hour ago, Alan White said:

Thanks Nik, that image with the arrow is very helpful, I have pinched it and used it as a circular e-mail ti my astro club.
I hope you don't mind me using it.

I looked at this last night, but could not get my head around which was Ceres or not?
 

Sure, I'm glad that it's useful. I have found the mobile version of Stellarium to be more accurate for positions of asteroids than the desktop version.

[ItsmeMaw]

Thanks for the post with Ceres marked! I'm hoping to get out the next two days if weather permits and try to image it!

[Peter_D]

Thanks Nik! Great capture and very helpful. I used my C6 SE OTA on a EQ mount yesterday and captured this single shot (exposure 6 seconds) - Ceres is far left.

Clear skies

Peter

[Kon]

Thanks Nik, I just had a look at it through my telescope. Nice sight.

[Laurin Dave]

Many thanks for the heads up on this Nik, I took 2x10 minutes of  it last night just after midnight with my Askar 200 and ASI2600mc, this is a crop from the full frame ..  My first asteroid! North is to the left ..

Dave

 

 

[Laurin Dave]

Caught it again last night so here's a little GIF showing the movement between 00:18 on the 3rd and 23:52 on the 4th .. its moving from left to right

Dave

Edited November 5, 2021 by Laurin Dave