This is red Mars passing below the blue Pleiades star cluster (aka M45 and the Seven Sisters) on the evening of March 3, 2021. Taken on a night with some high cloud and haze adding the natural glows around Mars and the bright stars, accentuating their colours. This is a stack of 10 x 30-second tracked exposures with the Canon 200mm lens at f/2.8 and the Canon 6D MkII at ISO 1600, the Star Adventurer 2i tracker. Taken from home. The frame is cropped in to improve the composition and cut out some gradients.
Stellarvue 78mm AT1010 Achromat f/6.15 test shot Mel111 Coma star cluster taken March 24, 2003 Fujichrome 400F slide film 28 minute exposure, STV guided used AP camera adapter Image is slightly soft and out of focus.
Stack of two 5-minute exposures with Canon 20Da at ISO400 and with 200mm lens at f/4. Taken April 20. Glow layer added to fuzz stars and spikes on stars are from lens diaphram and are not faked in points.
