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Community photo entitled  by David Hoskin on 11/28/2021 at Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

On 11/28/2021 11:00 pm by David Hoskin| Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

I missed the opportunity to image the minor planet Ceres at opposition due to clouds but was able to get an image of the dwarf planet last night, which was one day following opposition. Estimated magnitude of Ceres at the time of image capture was 7.04 - not quite visible to the unaided eye but visible with binoculars .

Orion ED80T-CF telescope, ZWO ASI533MC Pro camera with UV/IR cut filter, SkyWatcher EQ6R Pro mount

16 4-minute lights plus calibration frames were stacked using Deep Sky Stacker; background extraction with SiriL; other post-processing with Photoshop CS2 plus Astronomy Tools plugin, and Microsoft Photo.