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Old 27-12-2008, 04:02 AM
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Apologies To Ceres

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


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