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Venus shines bright in the eastern morning sky. The star cluster near the top of the image is the Beehive Cluster. This cluster is in the constellation of Cancer and contains 1000 stars. You can find more information about this cluster and how to see it here.
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Very nice sky shot Deborah.
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Thank you so much, John!
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Nicely composed and executed.
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Thank you so much, Robert!
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Agreed! It’s easy to shed the weight of whatever troubles one when exposed to the majesty you were able to capture: thank you for sharing it!
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Thank you so much!!
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I am a fan of low horizons and silhouettes so I love your shot! I noticed Venus shining bright in our Eastern view the other morning too. Good idea to photograph this scene! (WordPress is making me sign in to some blogs today for some reason.)
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Thank you so much, Denise!! WP is making me do that too on my iPhone so when it does that I switch to my Jetpak app and use the reader. I don’t need to sign in using that.
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This was on my computer. I have no clue what the Jetpack app is! Hard for me to keep up!
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WP changed their phone app to Jetpack and I think on the desktop too. I use the desktop the most. Even when some blogs want me to sign in again I switch to the Reader on my Desktop and I don’t need to sign in again to comment. It’s a weird and annoying bug always having to sign in to comment!
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Nice shot Deborah.
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Thank you, John!
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Beautiful shot.
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Thank you so much, Cheryl!!
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Truly magical photo and words, Deborah. Thanks so much.
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Thank you very much, Jet! I’m glad you liked them!
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That is so bright! Thank you for the photo, Deborah. Looking forward to more!
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Thank you so much, Jennie!
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You’re welcome, Deborah!
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Beautiful shot.
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Thank you so much, Judy!!
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Gorgeous! What an inspiring way to start your day. I had never heard of the beehive cluster before.
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Thank you so much, Janis. It was a lovely morning. The more serious astronomers call that cluster M44, but I like the Beehive Cluster name best. There are so many nebulas and things in the stars that I’ll never know. 😀
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Nice photo!!!!
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This is so beautiful, Deborah. I love your photos of the night skies, and I appreciate the effort it takes to get them.
I hope this comment makes it. I had problems logging in, and posting. It’s a widespread problem. I hope the Happiness Engineers can address it soon.
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Beautiful captures Deborah, I don’t know why it did not open in Jetpack for me.
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Thank you so much Ashley. I am in the Jetpack app now and I see the image but it opened in edit mode. That seems new so either WP change the way it opens or ? It’s weird!
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Thanks Deborah, it opens the photo when I click your post but it doesn’t show it in Jetpack
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That’s the app I was in earlier looking at blog posts. I wonder if it something I did when I looked at a comment on my post while in that app? I’m sorry! I’m glad you did see the image though somehow! Thank you so much for letting me know about the app!
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Hi Deborah, for some reason your photos did not show, but I am are they are impressive 😊
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Oh man! I was on the WP app earlier. I wonder if I messed something up. Let me look! I’m sorry.
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When I click on the post I see it. I hope you can see it now. Let me know if you still can’t please.
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Lovely photo, Deborah! Lots of stars to wish upon
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There are! 😀Thank you so much, Belinda!
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I like this photo. Simply beautiful. Also like “Whatever Wednesday.” It has a slightly rebellious sound to it.
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Thank you so much, Ally!!
I came up with this theme title when I wanted an open to whatever theme outside of being wordless or birds.😀
I’m happy you like my image. It was a great way to start my day.
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What a beautiful shot of the Eastern sky, Deborah. The mountains set it off beautifully.
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Thank you so much, John! I’m glad you liked my image.
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I got to wondering whether the stars in the Beehive Cluster merely seem to be near one another, and whether some of them might be a lot closer to or farther from us than others. I found the answer in your link:
“There are approximately 1,000 stars in the beautiful Beehive cluster, which is an open cluster of stars in our galaxy. Open clusters are stars that are gravitationally bound and are created out of the same star-forming nebula, such as the stars in the Orion Nebula. The Beehive is one of the nearest open clusters to our sun and Earth. It has a larger population of stars than most other nearby clusters.”
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I’m glad you found the answer. It’s interesting stuff isn’t it.
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