Mars vs Pleiades

I know that I am a bit late to the party, but here is my take of the close encounter of Mars with the Pleiades open cluster.

 

I would have loved to shoot this as a deepscape from a dark sky location with some nice landscape in the foreground, but first I was clouded out and when it finally cleared, I had to fly the other day and was only able to shoot from my light polluted backyard.

 

Sometimes, you have to take what you can, even if it means to shoot a reflection nebula under a bortle 5 sky. Hope I will have better conditions in 17 years, when this encounter will happen again.

 

EXIF

Canon EOS 7D mkii

Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8

Skywatcher AZ-GTI

Controlled with ASIair

120 x 30s + 60 x 15s @ ISO800 @ 200mm f/2.8

Done