Vesta and Ceres, 17 June 2014 - a photo on Flickriver

Vesta and Ceres, 17 June 2014

            The two largest asteroids, Ceres and Vesta, are heading for a close conjunction in mid July 2014. They are both too faint to see with the naked eye, but are easy targets in binoculars, near the fairly bright star Eta Virginis (which currently forms a nice triangle with Mars and Spica, as shown in this image). The asteroids will continue to move closer to each other over the next few weeks.

Incidentally, NASA's Dawn spacecraft is currently on route from Vesta to Ceres, where it will arrive in 2015!

For this image, I stacked 20 x 2.5 sec exposures (plus 10 corresponding dark frames) taken with my Canon 50D and EF35mm f/2 lens at f/2.8 and 1600 iso, using DeepSkyStacker.

Taken on: June 18, 2014

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vesta

ceres

asteroid

Sets appears in: • All astro photos • Moon, Sun and Planets

Groups appears in: • Astronomy • Long Exposures more » • Night Sky, The • Amateur Astronomy • Wide Field Astrophotography - Starry Skies • Sky @ Night • Night Sky Observations • Into the Night Photography • Astrophotography - The Solar System and Beyond « less

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