Awake and outside four times between 12:30 AM and 4:30 AM.
EDT; heavy cloud cover. Northeastern US.
At least it was warm, unlike most of the other observational astronomy events I have participated in.
@Symbeline: Mars is still around. Source
“Mars remains near its peak all this week. (April 11 to the 18.) Mars appears low in the east as darkness falls and grows more prominent as the evening wears on and it climbs higher. By 1 a.m. local daylight time, it stands halfway to the zenith in the southern sky. The ruddy world lies among the background stars of central Virgo, 8° northwest of that constellation’s brightest star, 1st-magnitude Spica. The planet shines at magnitude –1.5, some 10 times brighter than the star.”