4 dots in the southern sky

The difference is the view from the southern hemisphere.
Venus & Jupiter are flipped over and Canopus, the second brightest star, can be seen.

Last night Venus and Jupiter were still far apart. I couldn't get a close-up. I did focus on Jupiter's moons and two moons can barely be seen. Venus was much brighter to the eye. The sky was still bright and the contrast in the photo was poor. Bad timing.

Without tracking I had to take a fast shot to avoid trailing and raised the ISO.
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I thought, why not add something sparkling.
My zoom lens has a lot of spikes so I chose it to make the stars look more brilliant. The blue one on the right is Sirius. Canopus is dimmer but it looked similar in brightness and size because it was shot at a slower shutter speed. Then I just cut & paste them over to the Venus & Jupiter photo.
The hard part is the focusing on the zoom lens to reduce chromatic aberration.

Shot from the back of the car parked outside somebody's house looking north west.

Venus & Jupiter: a 360mm telescope on a APS-C frame camera in portrait mode
Sirius & Canopus, a 200mm zoom lens on a full frame camera
A dovetail bar to balance the telescope on a tripod
Remote shutter release
various ISO and shutter speeds
No tracking mount

Jupiter & Venus: layering, levels, curves, etc. to make Venus glow and show some moons
Sirius & Canopus, none