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Vesta Ceres 72 hr animation

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An animation showing the motion of dwarf planet Ceres and minor planet Vesta against the background stars, over 3 consecutive nights. The bright blue star near the top of the frame is Eta Virginis.

 

Each frame of this animation is an image obtained by stacking 10x2 sec exposures (taken with my Canon 50D and Tamron 90mm macro lens at f/2.8 and 1600 iso) using DeepSkyStacker.

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Uploaded on June 27, 2014
Taken on June 28, 2014