Three solar system bodies in Taurus

Having discovered that two of the brightest asteroids (well, one is now decribed as a dwarf planet) are currently in Taurus along with Jupiter, I thought I'd try and capture them all in one frame. I managed it here in this single exposure: 20s, f/8, ISO 3200 on the 5D MarkII and the 70-200/4L at 70mm, all atop my homemade sidereal drive.

Very close study of the original shows a limiting magnitude of about 11.3; easily enough for Vesta at 6.9 and Ceres at 7.2. You can see the Hyades just below Jupiter, and the Pleiades in the top right corner.

very cool. I read about them yesterday and wondered about the same shot. Well done.

Cool indeed! The Dawn spacecraft is somewhere in between Vesta and Ceres right now. I wonder if you might have gotten a Jupiter moon or two, the big four are well brighter than 11.3 .

Bernoulli wrote in post #15435611
...I wonder if you might have gotten a Jupiter moon or two, the big four are well brighter than 11.3 .

Thanks both. Yes, I think three of them can be seen on the original; the fourth is hidden in the glare from the long exposure of Jupiter.