I had given up on imaging last night due to cloudy conditions but just after midnight the sky cleared, and I was able to capture this image of Mars. On December 8 Mars will be at opposition and closest to Earth. Photographs of the red planet should be even better in coming days as long as the weather cooperates!

Celestron C8 SCT, ZWO ASI224MC, SkyWatcher EQ6R Pro

Best 15% of 50,000 frames of video were stacked with AutoStakkert, wavelets adjusted with AstroSurface, final tweaks using Photoshop.