Mars at 10:40PM PST on Dec. 20, 2007 when it was making its closest pass to earth until 2016. North is toward the lower left corner of the image.
Details
Location - a backyard in Victoria. Equipment - Skywatcher 200mm Newtonian on HEQ5 mount with Nikon Coolpix camera and Televue 2.5x Powermate. Effective focal length - 6000 mm. Processing - aligned and combined best 143 of 161 frames using Images Plus. Sharpening with ImagesPlus Richardson Lucy algorithm and contrast enhancement in Photoshop.