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The 2 photos depict Mercury rising and the scene about 5 minutes later; nautical twilight had already started. Neither it or the Pleiades were visible to the naked eye.
Today marks Mercury's maximum distance from the Sun and, more or less, its highest altitude for a given clock time for its current apparition, so although it gets a magnitude brighter over the next 10 days and should get easier to see against the dawn's glare, it will never be visible in any darker sky than what is seen here. That's going to make it difficult to shoot a decent photo of the entire planetary parade and a starry background together in one shot.
Photo data:
-- Panasonic GX8, Lumix 35-100mm lens @ 50mm
-- f/2.8, 5 sec, ISO 200
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