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Eliot Herman
Tucson AZ
02/22/2024
06:30 am

Equipment Details:

Takahashi 120 mm Nikon Z7II

Post-processing Details:

Photoshop

Image Details:

The day after closest conjunction when weather was better. Note red mars. The Moon was not in frame, its image was captured two hours prior to breaking dawn capture of Venus and Mars and inserted for scale to show the separation is greater than the Moon's diameter. Captured with a Takahashi 120 mm refractor and a Nikon Z7II.

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