The winter of 1993 saw Mars come to one of its more distant oppositions, this time in Gemini.  I observed this apparition from Colorado since at the time I was living in Boulder.  This picture was taken toward the end of its apparition, after it had cleared the forward end of its retrograde loop, although Mars is still barely brighter than magnitude +1.00 on this date.  A few days earlier, Mars would have made a straight line with Castor and Pollux.
The picture was taken with a Nikon FE2 using a 55mm lens probably wide open at f/1.2 and with an exposure of several minutes, piggybacked on my Meade 2045 4" SCT; the slide was scanned in 2022.