A selfie of me observing Mars, the bright reddish star at top, from home on January 4, 2023, with Mars then still bright a month after opposition. The

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A selfie of me observing Mars, the bright reddish star at top, from home on January 4, 2023, with Mars then still bright a month after opposition. The waxing gibbous Moon is the bright object at left. The Pleiades are above Mars; the Hyades and Aldebaran are below Mars. Orion and Sirius are rising in the background below. The telescope is the Starfield Optics Gear115 on the Astro-Physics Mach1 mount. This could be useful for illustrating an article on cold weather observing! Though it was a pleasant -5° C this night and no wind. This is a focus blend of two exposures, one focused on me, and one on the sky, both 4 seconds at f/4 with the TTArtisan 21mm lens on the Canon R5 at ISO 1600.

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