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Community photo entitled  by Grace Wheeler on 06/02/2023 at Eureka, CA USA

On 06/02/2023 10:10 pm by Grace Wheeler| Eureka, CA USA

Mars in the Beehive Cluster. Conditions for imaging were less than ideal with the full moon and a fog bank off the ocean that kept rising until Venus was obscured. I still managed to get in 15 minutes of imaging before I lost the cluster. The Beehive Cluster is one of my favorite deep sky objects and having Mars photobomb it was icing on the cake.

Celestron Evolution Mount, Williams-Optics 81mm refractor telescope, Canon EOS Ra camera.

15 light frames and 10 dark frames were stacked in Affinity Photo. Brightness and tone adjustment was done in Photoshop.