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The Moon greets Mars tonight but it's evading us Earthly paparazzi by veiling itself in clouds. I was lucky to shoot the intended planet--forget about the whole-sky parade tonight--and upcoming forecasts are not particularly promising.
IC 1613 is a small irregular dwarf galaxy that's a member of the Local Group. It's small in real size (12,700 ly) but big on the sky (2/3 the size of the Full Moon) at a distance of 2.8 mly, farther than Andromeda (M31) at 2.5 mly. Long exposure photographs can resolve many of its stars.
Link to next planet in line to the west. (Jupiter)
Panasonic GX8, Olympus 75mm
... composite: basic exposure: f/4, ISO 400
... stars (works on brightly lit clouds too): 5 sec; moon: 1/125 sec
celestial north is up, west right
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