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Mars at 9 or 10 oclock may still be very low to the horizon and the earths atmosphere will cause it to boil.
Over the last 4 nights of viewing mars, 3 of those 4 the "seeing" was very bad. THere was no cloud, no moon, mars was high in the sky, but jetstreams and other things meant that mars was simply a red smudge!! And yet on the other occasion, the 12mm (100x) eyepiece i saw detail on the surface, no polar ice, but the dark bands and areas.
Orion is following mars by about one hour. Have a look at the handle of the saucepan and you will see a cloud.
I am very lucky here, I have dark skys, so nebulas fill the 32mm ultrawide 80 degree 2" eyepice if i look at tarantula near the large magellanic clouds. The last two occassions, i have been very pleased with what i have seen. Mind you this is at around 3am in the morning!!!
Try orion first at say 11 pm tonight weather permitting.
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