Wednesday, 26 February 2014

Telescope size to detect Ceres (Newtonian)

Ceres varies between mag 9.3 and mag 6.7 which are below the nominal naked eye limiting magnitude of ~5. The gain in limiting magnitude for something like 10x50 binoculars (~4.5 magnitudes) would bring Ceres even at its faintest above the limiting magnitude of about 9.5.

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