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    This document summarizes the author's observations of Mars and the Beehive star cluster (M44) through different telescopes under hazy night sky conditions. The author used their homemade F4 4.25" Newtonian telescope and a Celestron Nextar 4SE to view Mars and the Beehive by eye, finding that the homemade telescope showed both objects well within the field of view at low magnification. They then took some photographs of the objects through a Meade refractor at the Hector J Robinson Observatory, getting an in-focus shot after initially being out of focus and deleting the first attempt.

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    This document summarizes the author's observations of Mars and the Beehive star cluster (M44) through different telescopes under hazy night sky conditions. The author used their homemade F4 4.25" Newtonian telescope and a Celestron Nextar 4SE to view Mars and the Beehive by eye, finding that the homemade telescope showed both objects well within the field of view at low magnification. They then took some photographs of the objects through a Meade refractor at the Hector J Robinson Observatory, getting an in-focus shot after initially being out of focus and deleting the first attempt.

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    This document summarizes the author's observations of Mars and the Beehive star cluster (M44) through different telescopes under hazy night sky conditions. The author used their homemade F4 4.25" Newtonian telescope and a Celestron Nextar 4SE to view Mars and the Beehive by eye, finding that the homemade telescope showed both objects well within the field of view at low magnification. They then took some photographs of the objects through a Meade refractor at the Hector J Robinson Observatory, getting an in-focus shot after initially being out of focus and deleting the first attempt.

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    This document summarizes the author's observations of Mars and the Beehive star cluster (M44) through different telescopes under hazy night sky conditions. The author used their homemade F4 4.25" Newtonian telescope and a Celestron Nextar 4SE to view Mars and the Beehive by eye, finding that the homemade telescope showed both objects well within the field of view at low magnification. They then took some photographs of the objects through a Meade refractor at the Hector J Robinson Observatory, getting an in-focus shot after initially being out of focus and deleting the first attempt.

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    MARS and the Beehive (M44)

    top right F4 4.25” Homebuilt with 40mm Meade eyepiece.


    top left: Mars and Beehive shot through f7 Meade 80mm at Hector J Robinson Observatory Lincoln Park Michigan.

    Conditions: Haze and halo around moon.

    Mars and the Beehive


    After sleeping through a hour or two of movies in the living room,
    I went out and noticed the sky conditions. They weren’t very
    good, but you could see some objects through the hazy bowl
    conditions. I wanted to take a peek at Mars and the Beehive.

    I grabbed my little F4 4.25 homebuilt and did a little handheld


    viewing at Mars and the Beehive, then brought out the rickety
    mount and also the Nexstar 4SE. My homebuilt with the 40mm
    showed a nice wide field - the entire open cluster and Mars well
    within the field of view at 10x.

    The Nextar SE with the same 40mm eyepiece would not show the
    beehive and Mars. The F10 Nextar SE isn’t a wide field
    telescope.

    Calling Greg Ozimek at 10:40PM I found out I interrupted his


    sleep. So he went back to sleep and I brought out my cameras to
    The White Tube f4 4.25 inch Homebuilt Newtonian
    take a few stills of the telescopes and the conditions. After
    Telescope on old makeshift tripod stand. Celestron
    putting the telescopes away I decided to take a quick trip by the
    Nextar 4 SE sits further back on the corner of the deck/
    observatory to see if I could get a quick shot of both through the
    ramp
    Meade refractor. The goto found m44 and put it in the finder. I
    took the cover off the Meade and left the C-14 cover on. First
    shot was way out of focus and deleted. I slewed toward the
    Greg Knekleian 4-19-2010 moon to get focus and then returned. Turning the camera
    sideways brought more of both M44 and Mars in view.

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