I stepped out for some fresh air last night, noticed the moon lighting up small patchy clouds, looked up at the moon as it emerged from behind a cloud...and spotted a point of light above it. Mars! Wow, close—just a moon diameter (half-degree) away from the edge of the moon. Got out the telescope & camera and took some photos during an interval when the clouds disappeared (by which point the moon had already slid lower-leftward, away from its closest approach to Mars). Really bad seeing; even with the clouds gone, the air up there was rushing past. The picture above is a stack of 10 frames for the moon and 20 for Mars, shot using the Televue 85 working as a 600mm telephoto lens. Just a little smear of Martian "sea" and polar ice cap are visible. Mars is twice the size of our moon in diameter, but it's 185 times farther away in this picture.
In Brazil, because of the more southerly viewing angle, the moon actually passed in front of Mars. A superb picture of Mars's reappearance, taken through a much larger telescope with excellent seeing, can be seen here: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap200911.html
