This morning's Mars and Venus after sunrise. Mars was about 18 degrees above the horizon.
All with Canon EOS 550D with 4x teleconverters at prime focus of 12" Goto Sky Watcher Dobsonian, manually tracked.
Also, here is a video of the planet rising (and that is not my crow)!:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31JZNWdGgDw
Here is the video the Mars image was made with:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSz9Cgkayds
Thanks for looking,
Tom