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Mars and Neptune - Dec 6, 2018 (AM106 6DII).jpg

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Mars (the bright yellowish object) just 18 arc minutes from Neptune to the left , on the evening of December 6, 2018. They were closer together several hours later but that was when they were below my horizon. Both were in Aquarius for this conjunction – indeed Neptune isn’t going very far from this spot for many years; it’s Mars that’s doing the moving.

This is a stack of 7 x 90-second exposures blended with one short 20-second exposure for Mars itself to prevent it from being too overexposed. All with the A&M 106mm refracrtor at f/6.2 and Canon 6D MkII at ISO 400, and with the Hotech field flattener.
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Mars (the bright yellowish object) just 18 arc minutes from Neptune to the left , on the evening of December 6, 2018. They were closer together several hours later but that was when they were below my horizon. Both were in Aquarius for this conjunction – indeed Neptune isn’t going very far from this spot for many years; it’s Mars that’s doing the moving. <br /> <br /> This is a stack of 7 x 90-second exposures blended with one short 20-second exposure for Mars itself to prevent it from being too overexposed. All with the A&M 106mm refracrtor at f/6.2 and Canon 6D MkII at ISO 400, and with the Hotech field flattener.