Here's some eye candy for you.. Mars easily outshining its rival in magnitude:
High Res on SmugMug
This also happens to be first light for my observatory. As evidenced by the 80m extension lead out to the dome and the mess on the floor inside, I got it limping along just in time to get this image. Hopefully power and (sketchy) rural internet will be connected Friday next week. I don't even know what I'm going to call it
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More info here:
http://philhart.com/content/rival-to-mars
Phil