Mars and M45 taken on Feb 11, 2006, with 200mm lens at f5.6, with Canon 20Da camera at ISO100. Stack of four 5 minutes exposures. Nearly full Moon up in very clear sky so sky is blue.
Orange Mars, at centre, between the blue Pleiades (at right) and the large Hyades (at left) star clusters, with orange Aldebaran adorning the Hyades (though it is not a member of the Hyades but a foreground star). The more distant and smaller cluster NGC 1647 is at top left, also in Taurus. This was March 11, 2021. This is a stack of 4 x 4-minute tracked exposures with the Samyang 85mm AF lens at f/2.8 on the Canon EOS Ra at ISO 800, with a single exposure of the same length blended in taken through the Kase/Alyn Wallace StarGlow filter to add the star glows! (Though haze moving in was starting to do the job naturally at this time.) The tracker was the Star Adventurer 2i.
Mars below the Pleiades star cluster and north (right) of the Hyades cluster, all in Taurus, on the evening of March 30, 2019. They are set into the deep blue of the darkening twilight in the western sky. This is a stack of 4 x 60-second exposures for the main sky blended with a similar exposure taken through a Kenko Softon A filter to add the artistic star glows, though high haze this night added some natural glows. All at f/2.8 with the Rokinon 85mm lens and Canon 6D MkII at ISO 200, and on the Fornax Lightrack tracker. The sky gradient is natural from the twilight. Diffraction spikes added with Astronomy Tools actions.
