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Dwarf Planet Ceres Crosses M100 March 26, 2023, sydney

Dwarf Planet Ceres Crosses M100 March 26, 2023

Dwarf Planet Ceres Crosses M100 March 26, 2023, sydney

Dwarf Planet Ceres Crosses M100 March 26, 2023

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Description

Dwarf planet Ceres passes in front of spiral galaxy M100 on the night of March 26-27.  Ceres is about 13.3 light-minutes away from Earth while M100 is about 56 million light-years further out. Image shows Ceres every 30 minutes from UT 00:22 - 06:52 on March 27, 2023.    Image is a composite of:

20x600 sec luminance 
30x420 sec RGB (10 exposures per channel) and
13x3 sec luminance for Ceres

Telescope: C14 Edge with Celestron 0.7 reducer
Mount: AP 900GTO
Camera: SBIG 10XME
Filters: Astrodon I-series

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Dwarf Planet Ceres Crosses M100 March 26, 2023, sydney