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Celestron Evolution Mount, Williams-Optics 81mm refractor telescope, Canon EOS Ra camera.
15 light frames and 10 dark frames were stacked in Affinity Photo. Brightness and tone adjustment was done in Photoshop.
Mars in the Beehive Cluster. Conditions for imaging were less than ideal with the full moon and a fog bank off the ocean that kept rising until Venus was obscured. I still managed to get in 15 minutes of imaging before I lost the cluster. The Beehive Cluster is one of my favorite deep sky objects and having Mars photobomb it was icing on the cake.