Moon - Mars Conjunction on December 7, 2022 (JDJ)

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Moon - Mars Conjunction on December 7, 2022

Imaged the conjunction of Earth's moon and Mars on the night of December 7/8, 2022. This image was taken at 10:56 pm EDT on 12/7 near minimum separation as viewed from my location. I was lucky to capture the event at all as the sky has been clouded over for days and conditions were quite bad last night. Low clouds rolled out around 10:30 and I was able to see the Moon through high clouds with binoculars, so I grabbed the DSLR with 300 mm telephoto and it was better than expected given the conditions. I quickly assembled the imaging configuration from last month's lunar eclipse and started shooting. By this time fog had rolled in, but the images continued to be better than I hoped given the situation. I pulled out the C8 after shooting these, so more to come...

Imaged with an Astrotech AT60 at F/6 (350 mm focal length), 2.5x Televue Powermate, extension tube from my 5x barlow, and Nikon D750. This is the same imaging setup I used for the November 2022 lunar eclipse giving me ~875 mm focal length.

Single shot with 1/100 second exposure at ISO-1600. Processed in Pixinsight: cropped, generalized hyperbolic stretch, curves transformation, local histogram transformation, color saturation adjustment.

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