JANUARY
Ceres finishes its retrograde loop and starts moving eastwards again just below Aries towards Taurus. Ceres, high in the southern sky, is shown at about 8pm local time for mid-northern latitudes.

FEBRUARY
At 7pm, Ceres is high in the SSW and continues to move eastward towards Taurus.

MARCH
Ceres continues its eastward trek towards Taurus and at the end of the month is getting ready to pass between the Pleiades (M45) and the Hyades — two open star clusters in Taurus. They're both about 5 degrees away, so they won't be visible in the same field of view.

APRIL
Ceres is moving up relative to the horizon; but Earth is moving faster around the sun, resulting in the sunset quickly catching up to Ceres. As Ceres passes between the Pleiades and Hyades, it gets to within 3 degrees of the star ε Tau on about the 19th and on the 29th is only a quarter of a degree (~15arcmin) from τ Tauri.