Vesta and Ceres

After suffering through the heat and humidity of earlier August and a full moon to boot, tonight was finally great seeing. Temperature was in high 60's, no moon, clear and sharp skies. The milky way was visible all the way to Casseopia. I decided to check on Vesta which I've been watching before the moon got too bright, and also see if I could snag Ceres who is also in the neighborhood. Vesta was still pretty bright and has now moved over next to Psi Cap and it makes a nice group with Omega Cap although not nearly as bright as those two. It's about a magnitude 6 now.
Ceres was another matter. It's fairly dim and in an area I'm not that familiar with: Cetus. It's not far from Beta Cetus or Diphda the second frog. Now I wonder what is the 'first frog'? Diphda was easily visible peeking out from behind an oak tree but I decided to hop from Fomalhout instead since the stars seemed a bit brighter in that area. From Alpha PsA I went 'up' to a group of 3 stars about 2 binocular widths: 86, 89, and 88 PsA. From there, east about a half binocular width to 98, 99, 101 PsA and then over about a binocular width to a group of five stars making what I call 'the snake'. It looked like the head of a snake poking up out of the grass: 103, 104, 106, 107, 108 PsA. That was all pretty easy. Now it got a bit trickier. The snake is about a half field width in my 7x50's. If I center 108, 2Cet pops into view making about a 120 degree angle with the snake. If I center 2 Cet, 6 Cet pops into view almost in a direct line from 108 PsA. If I center 6 Cet, I get a little arc of three dim mag 7 stars with Ceres just below the arc. It's a bit dimmer at almost mag 8. 6 Cet, the little arc and a dim little three star 'hocky stick' form a line with Ceres just below the middle of the line about as far as the size of the arc.
I finished off the night by checking out Jupiter which was rising in the east. I could sometimes make out Ganeymede in the glare if I held the binocs against a post.