Any astrophysicists/astronomers here?

[ForcedFirebird]

Mars, Jupiter and Saturn at visible to the naked eye right now. :)

[ForcedFirebird]

Ceres and Vesta (dwarf planet and Asteroid) are supposed to be visible tonight, but stupid Florida rain/clouds are ruining it all for me. Ceres is claimed to be seen with a decent set of binoculars, even :(

http://www.kvoa.com/story/38546409/asteroid-the-size-of-arizona-visible-with-the-naked-eye

:(

Hopefully someone else here will have more luck...

https://medium.com/@starwalk/its-easy-to-see-ceres-the-full-strawberry-moon-meets-mars-after-saturn-and-the-ringed-planet-1315c80e06cd

Use binoculars to look for Ceres as a little, star-like object just a short distance above Algieba. A small telescope at medium-high magnification will show Ceres and Algieba’s close-together pair of distant stars together in the same field of view.

After a determined search by many astronomers who were looking for a theorized missing planet, Ceres was the first asteroid ever discovered, by Giuseppe Piazzi in Palermo, Sicily, on January 1, 1801. It was named after the Roman Goddess of Agriculture. (The same name gave us the word “cereal”!) Ceres was originally given planet status, orbiting as it does between Mars and Jupiter. But calculations of its 950 km diameter, and later discoveries of countless additional bodies in the asteroid belt, led to its demotion to queen of the asteroid belt. But in 2006, the same rules that demoted Pluto to dwarf planet status promoted Ceres to the same class of objects. Good luck!

As I mentioned last week, another asteroid, the minor planet (4) Vesta, is now visible all night long, and appearing about its brightest (magnitude 5.33) for the year — within reach of binoculars and small telescopes. Look for the object above the Teapot-shaped constellation Sagittarius (the Archer), about a fist’s diameter to the upper right of Saturn.