Mars (left) near the globular cluster M22 in Sagittarius, November 8, 2014. This is a stack of 8 x 1.5 and 2 minute exposures, with the Canon 6D and the TMB 92mm refractor at f/4.4. Taken from my winter home near Silver City, New Mexico.
Mars (at left) and the galactic centre area of the summer Milky Way low over the southern horizon at Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park, Alberta, on June 8/9, 2018. Sagittarus is at centre, with Scorpius at right. The Messier 6 and 7 open star clusters are just above the horizon at centre, just right of the Sweetgrass Hills on the horizon in Montana. This is a stack of 12 exposures for the ground, mean combined to smooth noise, and 1 exposure for the sky, all 30 seconds at f/2 with the Laowa 15mm lens on the Sony a7III camera at ISO 6400. These were the last frames in a 340-frame time-lapse sequence. At this time of year, the sky is always bright with deep blue perpetual twilight.
The red planet Mars beside the blue stars of the Pleiades, on March 30, 2019. This is a stack of 4 x 1-minute exposures with the 200mm lens at f/3.5 and Canon 6D MkII at ISO 800, plus a stack of two exposures taken through a Kenko Softon diffusion filter to add the enhanced glows, though there was enough high haze this night to add some natural glows. The camera on the Fornax Lightrack tracker. Images manually stacked and aligned as the difference in star positions at the bottom of the frame due to atmospheric refraction (the field was low in the west) made it impossible for Photoshop to align the images accurately.
