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On 11/30/2024 01:24 am by Michael Flynn | Pine Mountain Club,California,USA

The weather had been on and off cloudy all week but this morning things cleared briefly
allowing me time to get several images of the Beehive Cluster and Mars this one being the best although they seem close together they are actually separated by approximately six hundred light years.

Nikon d850 / 100mm f1.4 / ISO 5000 / 1.6 sec @ f2 / W/B 5850 Kelvin