It was clouded over and snowing here during the Mars-Moon conjunction, I could hardly make out the position of the moon in the sky. However here is a mockup of the image I imagined capturing at the closest conjunction, based on an old full moon image and a stacked Mars image that I captured early November 29, just two days before Mars made its closest approach to earth, realistically positioned and scaled according to Stellarium. Apologize for the poor quality of the moon part, but I sort of like it in that it honestly shows that it is a simulated composite and emphasizes that Mars is so much further away.
#1
I actually captured a series of stacks of Mars with the 300mm f.4 PF+TC-14E+TC-20E III @ f/14 on Nikon 1 AW1 and adapter at ISO 160, bursts of 60 fps over one hour, each stack about 1100 frames covering about 10min. Go to my moon stacking post earlier in this thread for details on how it was processed. Here is the resulting GIF animation:
#2
The cloudy polar cap is clearly visible to the north, and in the south-west there is also a cloudy lighter area rotating into view. I am pretty pleased with resolving this much as the seeing was far from optimal and Mars is further away on its closest approach than it was two years ago.
This is perhaps easier to see in the single frames behind the animation:
#3
I hope someone else here got a chance to capture the real conjunction/occlusion event, and not just a composite mockup.
