A Mars a day helps you work rest and play

Tried to take a photo of Mars tonight in all its glory.

This is the best of a poor bunch with a 300mm lens (not actually that big), well you can see the round shape and the colour's about right (maybe a little pale) but it's lacking in detail - I guess that's something to do with Earth's atmosphere interfering or something.

Still nice to have it so dark along the canal that you can take pictures like this without ambient streetlights interfering.

Some room for improvement here I think!