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.
This is the small and sparse star cluster M29 (Messier 29) at centre in Cygnus the Swan. It barely stands out from the rich background Milky Way field in this long exposure. Above M29 is the IC 1318 complex of nebulosity around the bright star Gamma Cygni, aka Sadr. This is a stack of 12 x 4-minute exposures at ISO 800 with the Canon R5 and through the Starfield Optics Géar90 EDT refractor with its 0.8x Adjustable Reducer/Flattener for f/4.8. On the Astro-Physics Mach1 mount and autoguided and dithered with the Lacerta MGEN3 autoguider. The Canon R5 is a stock camera, not modified and no filter was employed here, but it picked up the nebulosity quite well.
The open star cluster Messier 50 in Monoceros with a 200mm telephoto lens to provide a field of view similar to binoculars. The star cluster NGC 2353 is at lower left, NGC 2306 is at upper right. The Seagull Nebula is barely visible at bottom in this short unfiltered exposure. This is a stack of 12 x 30-second exposures with the Canon EF 200mm lens at f/2.8 on the Canon R5 at ISO 3200, on the Star Adventurer tracker. Taken from home on the morning of October 8, 2022.
