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Community photo entitled Jupiter, Mars, Pleiades and Hyades by Steve Wilson on 08/06/2024 at Salina, Kansas  USA

Jupiter, Mars, Pleiades and Hyades

On 08/06/2024 03:45 am by Steve Wilson| Salina, Kansas USA

With Jupiter and Mars getting closer together, I decided to go out east of town about 6 miles to a darker sky than my backyard to get this photo of Jupiter, Mars, the Hyades as well as the Pleiades star cluster. Took 169 lights, 40 darks at ISO of 1600, 30 seconds each. Was totally amazed at the detail I got with such short exposure times. Am looking forward to doing this again as the weather permits to see Jupiter and Mars get closer.

Portable Star Tracker, Canon t7i camera, 50mm lens and CLS filter

Just stacked photos in Deep Sky Stacker and processed in Photoshop.