Mars!

No, that's the Moon, but it was taken last night when Mars was approaching its closest point to Earth. Here's the schedule for those relatively close events, called oppositions...I say relatively because we're talking almost 60-Million miles.

Here’s a list of Mars Oppositions from 2007-2020 (source)

• Dec. 24, 2007 – 88.2 million km (54.8 million miles)
• Jan. 29, 2010 – 99.3 million km (61.7 million miles)
• Mar. 03, 2012 – 100.7 million km (62.6 million miles)
• Apr. 08, 2014 – 92.4 million km (57.4 million miles)
• May. 22, 2016 – 75.3 million km (46.8 million miles)
• Jul. 27. 2018 – 57.6 million km (35.8 million miles)
• Oct. 13, 2020 – 62.1 million km (38.6 million miles)

 Anyway, my 40x camera zoom can get pretty good shots of the Moon, which is about 239,000 miles away...like the photo above. But Mars? At least I think it was Mars!

Here my attempt at showing both the planet and the moon:

And here's what I get trying for Mars alone---

Now Mars has only two moons..and small ones at that, so I'm confident those blips are Martian ships orbiting their planet. Or dirt on my lens.
Whatever.