I don't think I have attempted to capture Ceres before but here we have it by chance as I put the new scope through it's paces on galaxy season. I was going to continue with my M95 project previously posted when I scrolled around Stellarium to see Ceres placed in the frame with M100. After a few lunar captures earlier I set an autorun for a few hours of data. Having a few calibration frame issues with the Flats not working properly, had a similar issue last year but a new set of flats with a higher ADU value solved the problem.
So here we have a massive crop of the original frame to show the beautiful M100 in all it's spiral glory.
A few details on Ceres.
The largest of the catalogued asteroids at just under a 1000km in diameter, Ceres roams the solar system at an average distance of 400 million Km's. Ceres was discovered in 1801 after the prediction of another body between Mars & Jupiter.
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