Thank you to everyone for your nice words – their warmth helped thaw my cold bones from a chilly Brisbane morning.
I had the camera mounted on top of the telescope in our back garden and was very concerned about the conjunction clearing the tree line. I had planned to stack a few shots to improve the image quality but the strong, gusty SW winds kept blowing the palm fronds into random patterns, so no two frames would line up in the stack!
I never did get to see Mars, as by the time it had cleared the trees, the skies were too bright.
Cheers
Dennis
PS – I have uploaded an image without the clutter of the text to show the “naked” view