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Mars above the Keck Lasers

This past summer, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn were simultaneously visible in the evening sky. It was quite impressive seeing them all in a line. In this photo, Mars rises as Kecks 1 and 2 propagate their adaptive optics lasers atop Mauna Kea on Hawaii's Big Island.

 

Gear note: my other cameras were filming timelapse, so I shot this with a Canon M5 mirrorless camera and an adapted Rokinon 24 1.4. Despite being APS-C, the M5's noise performance is really quite good.

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Uploaded on October 26, 2018
Taken on August 1, 2018