I've been doing guerilla observations of Mars after coming home from working night shift, ergo, at just before dawn local time, or about 1800 UT. With brightening skies, Mars should still be observable as late as 7am Sydney time.
Sat night, I bracketed between 1030pm and 0030 am or 1230-1400 UT roughly for my viewings and basically saw the same lack of detail. The usual dark markings should be very obvious and open to showing more evanescent detail round the edges. Dust storm still.
So am I. Sydney weather has been crap lately, but the weather on Mars doubly so. Hopefully, the dust will clear while the planet's still close. We have the rest of August and September, I think, for a reasonable disc.
I could see Syrtis Major, Sinus Sabaeus, Mare Hadriaticum and they almost seemed as dark as formerly (as seen with a red W25 filter).
The belt around the shrinking south polar cap was less dark and Hellas was outlined clearly, though without its customary cloudy haze. The white haze may have been coloured by the dust storm particles remaining in the atmosphere.
Mars did look pretty good last night, seeing was good but not great from here, Jupiter and Saturn looked good earlier as well. Was first lighting a new scope, a 250mm F5 Newt and collimation was off a little and the EQ6 has an annoying vibration that I haven't managed to adjust to get rid of.
It is pleasing to see that the dreaded dust storm is definitely abating, a few nights ago, Sunday evening, Syrtis Major was standing out quite boldly