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Palomar

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From: USA

Registered: 2002-05-30

Posts: 9,734

Re: See Ceres

*Visible with binoculars:

If you are looking for an early evening challenge, then why not try your hand at 8.6 magnitude asteroid Ceres? On this date, it will be just slightly (around 1 degree) northeast of visual double, Nu Librae.

Info courtesy universetoday.com.  If we get a break in our monsoon weather, I'm going for it. 

Can get "directions" here.  Must register (is free).

Good luck.

--Cindy

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We all know [i]those[/i] Venusians: Doing their hair in shock waves, smoking electrical coronas, wearing Van Allen belts and resting their tiny elbows on a Geiger counter...

--John Sladek (The New Apocrypha)

SpaceNut

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From: New Hampshire

Registered: 2004-07-22

Posts: 29,431

Re: See Ceres

Found a sky chart and positional data

Interesting to find out that it was the first one ever discovered after the planets.