Pretty good opportunity tonight… Sadly C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) is blocked from here, so that means an early morning road trip. Anyway, here it is:
This is a composite image of the 2 images below it. The Moon picture was shot at 1/8000 of a second, and to get the stars, I had to shoot at 1/6th of a second. Extremely high dynamic range. Messier 45 was not visible at all with the naked eye as the Moon was so over powering.
Here’s Messier 45 from a dark moonless sky
