With Saturn's razor-thin rings stealing the show I suppose it's been easy to overlook the nearby 8th mag glow of our first discovered and largest asteroid (or smallest 'dwarf' planet).
As my own penance, I'm including links to a couple of finder charts.
Currently a binocular target midway between delta and theta Leo, Ceres will make a retrograde loop around delta and brighten to mag 6.9 by opposition on 25 Feb 2009.
Ceres bio:
http://www.solarviews.com/eng/ceres.htm
http://tinyurl.com/95gd4h
http://tinyurl.com/7e83ma
Saber Does The Stars at
www.astronomyblogs.com/member/saberscorpx