This is Mars (at right) near the orange giant star Mebsuta, aka Epsilon Geminorum, on April 12, 2023. Mars was 50 arc minutes from the star this night

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This is Mars (at right) near the orange giant star Mebsuta, aka Epsilon Geminorum, on April 12, 2023. Mars was 50 arc minutes from the star this night. It was closer the following two nights, about 20 and 16 arc minutes from the star. Mars was magnitude + while Mebsuta is +3. This is a stack of 8 x 2-minute exposures with the Astro-Tech 90CFT apo refractor with the Reducer for , with the filter-modified Canon R at ISO 1600. All on the Sky-Watcher EQM35 mount autoguided with the Lacerta MGEN3. The field was getting lower in the western sky, but the sky was quite clear this frosty spring night.

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