Following the successful landing of the Phoenix Mars Lander I give you Mars meeting the Beehive Cluster. I took this image on Thursday night. Notice the elongated shape of Mars caused by its proper motion over the hour I exposed.

M44 and Mars – May 22, 2008
Constellation: Cancer
Location: Old 16” Site, DAO
Optics: Borg 77EDII at f/4.3
Camera: Canon 20Da on Kenko SkyMemo
Exposures: 21 RAW light frames of 30 sec at ISO 400
41 RAW light frames of 30 sec at ISO 800
Process: Calibrated with 20 dark and 20 flat frames in ImagesPlus. Combined using MinMax Excluded. Colour balance in Photoshop.