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David Chapman
Burke-Gaffney Observatory, Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
03/11/2023
05:50 am

Equipment Details:

Robotic 0.61 m f/6.5 CDK24 Planewave reflector telescope with Apogee CG-16M CCD monochrome camera. Field of View is 24x24 arcseconds.

Post-processing Details:

Minimal iPhone cropping and adjustment of original JPEG image from robotic telescope.

Image Details:

This is a 180 s robotic exposure of the dwarf planet (1) Ceres, with spiral galaxy M91 accidentally in the frame. The nearby star is 12th magnitude while Ceres shines at 7th magnitude.