M 45 - Pleiades - AKA Seven Sisters
An open star cluster situated about 440 lights years away. The local cluster actually contains up to 1000 fairly young stars. They glow bright blue and shine through nebulae - one of the jewels of the Winter sky.

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M 13 - The Great Globular Cluster in the constellation Hercules.
This tight cluster of stars is about 25,000 light years away from earth with an estimated 500,000 solar masses.

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NGC 1499 - Dragon's Head Nebula - AKA California Nebula
A large emission nebula in the constellation Perseus approx 1000 light years away.

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A palette cleanse. Woke up feeling angry, frustrated and deeply cynical about the spiraling downward cycle of corruption in this administration. There is no bottom of this pit, and I am tired of falling. We are governed by organized crime.

A 35mm image of the Milky Way from the Tallgrass Prairie from a few years ago. The stack was created with Sequator using 10 different images. The Tallgrass has some of the Darkest Sky in Oklahoma that is readily accessible during Milky Way season.

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Star trails above the Cloughjordan Community Amphitheatre.

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