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Originally Posted by Tinderboxsky
A cold night with a short window of reasonable transparency, so an opportunity to view the progress of Ceres and Vesta.
They now appear to be just under half a degree apart and about to pass through a triangle of 6, 6.4 and 7.4 mag stars spanning approx two thirds of a degree that stands out clearly in the field of view. Quite a sight and it will make it very easy to view progress over coming nights. They will pass through this triangle on their way to their close conjunction just beyond the triangle.
Ceres has dimmed noticeably since my first observation on the 20th.
Cheers
Steve.
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Hi Steve,
If you're interested, you can see them entering the triangle of stars that you mentioned in a little animation that I put together here:
http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/s...47#post1095147
Cheers,
Stephen