By Petr Horálek | 2023-02-14
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On 03/11/2023 05:50 am by David Chapman| Burke-Gaffney Observatory, Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
This is a 180 s robotic exposure of the dwarf planet (1) Ceres, with spiral galaxy M91 accidentally in the frame. The nearby star is 12th magnitude while Ceres shines at 7th magnitude.
Robotic 0.61 m f/6.5 CDK24 Planewave reflector telescope with Apogee CG-16M CCD monochrome camera. Field of View is 24x24 arcseconds.
Minimal iPhone cropping and adjustment of original JPEG image from robotic telescope.
