Mars in the Beehive Cluster

This is Mars in M44, the Beehive Cluster, before dawn this morning. It's a stack of 30-some 60-second images.

StellarVue 152 mm refractor, Nikon D810A camera, Astro-Physics Mach2 GTO tracking mount. Guide camera, scope, and software

The plan was to get shorter images of Mars so the planet wasn't so completely blown out. Unfortunately, the sky fogged over before I got to that part of the sequence. So instead, I used a Mars from a stack of a few images that had been dulled by thin cloud cover. I combined the two in Photoshop.