Homowo Regio
What Homowo Regio is
Homowo Regio is a regio — a large area distinguished by its brightness or colour — on Ceres, 360 km across, centred at 19.5° N, 110.2° W. It is the 5th largest named feature on Ceres and the 1st largest of its class there.
Where the name comes from
Ga people (Ghana) harvest festival to celebrate all local crops. Celebrations begin in May and culminate in August. The International Astronomical Union approved the name in 2020.
What it would take to settle Homowo Regio
Ceres scores 43.8 as a world. That number is the same for every square metre of it — but sunlight, water, radiation and the ground under your feet are not. This is the same question asked at 19.5° N, 110.2° W.
What this spot has going for it is sunlight — 94% of the sunlight the sunniest latitude on Ceres gets. What works against it is water — outside the ice-bearing latitudes.
Computed from Homowo Regio's catalogued latitude, longitude and feature class — 68% of the model's weight had a basis here, and 3 axes were dropped as not applicable to Ceres (radiation geometry, earth link, known ground). Gravity, pressure, delta-v and distance from the Sun are the same everywhere on Ceres and are already counted in the world's own index, not again here.
What this cannot see: elevation. Slope, local shadowing and the polar “peaks of eternal light” — ridge tops near the poles of a barely tilted world that catch sun almost continuously while a crater floor kilometres away never does — need a terrain model this does not have. Where a real mission targets a pole, that is usually why.