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Grasslands Observatory: The Planets
	Transit of Venus, June 8 2004. This image was obtained by Tim Hunter from Montreal, Quebec, as Venus was beginning to exit the Sun. A Sony 2 megapixel CyberShot camera was held up to the 32mm eyepiece of a Questar telescope.
	Transit of Venus, June 8 2004. This image was obtained by Tim Hunter from Montreal, Quebec, as Venus was beginning to exit the Sun. A Sony 2 megapixel CyberShot camera was held up to the 32mm eyepiece of a Questar telescope.
	Venus at Inferior Conjunction. This is a frame from a video taken by Derald Nye and James McGaha when Venus was 5.50 from the Sun and 0.4% illuminated.
	Venus and the Pleiades on the evening of Thursday April 2, 2020.
	Mars September 2003. This image of Mars was obtained by James McGaha using a Philips TUCam Pro web camera mounted at the prime focus of the Grasslands 24-inch f/5 telescope.
	Mars and its Moons at 05:39UT 29 August 2003. This image was obtained by James McGaha using a Philips TUCam Pro web camera mounted on the NOAO 36-inch telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory near Tucson, Arizona.
	Mars and its Moons at 06:32UT 29 August 2003. Note the different position of the Moons of Mars compared with the above image taken at 05:39UT. This image was obtained by James McGaha using a Philips TUCam Pro web camera mounted on the NOAO 36-inch telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory near Tucson, Arizona.
	This image of Saturn was obtained by Tim Hunter and James McGaha on January 27, 2007 using the Grasslands Observatory C-14 telescope at f/22 with a Philips TUCam Pro web camera.
	Great Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn: Sunday December 20, 2020 - one day prior to closest approach.
	Mars passed "through" M44 at the end of May and beginning of June 2023.
	Venus passed close to M44 on the night of Monday June 12, 2023.
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