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Pages: 1 Mike Phillips Carpal Tunnel Reged: 02/21/06 Loc: Swift Creek, NC - 35.682 N, 78... HiRes Ceres       #3010702 - 03/28/09 08:58 PM Attachment (71 downloads) Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   I was inspired by Fabio Plocostomos and Chris Go's work on Ceres at high res and decided to go for it myself near opposition or good seeing. So that single 2 day break in rain and clouds a week ago yielded some good Venus and Saturn images and also this great view of Ceres. I had a hard time finding some good ephemeris data for angular size so calculated it myself as follows: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angular_diameter [Theta doesn't show in BBCODE, I substituted &] & = d / D, where & is the angular size, d is visual diameter and D is the distance to the object. So using the WRONG units I get: 1.64AU distance to Ceres and 950km diameter of Ceres gives 0.798". I hope to not have overexposed the object which would have caused bloat or bloom in the data. I stretched in post processing and resized to 200% Enjoy! Mike Post Extras:       chris go Pooh-Bah Reged: 04/06/04 Loc: Cebu City, Philippines Re: HiRes Ceres [Re: Mike Phillips]       #3011216 - 03/29/09 07:41 AM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Nice work Mike. Imaging Ceres is really tough! Regards, Chris Post Extras:       Pages: 1

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