I never saw it last time as I'm still a newbie, I will be keeping an eye out this time though. I could really do with finding myself a nice 5x barlow too for the occasion.

You can get a good camera which is as powerful as a small telescope for the occasion mainly ebay

I will be seeing it if the weather sorts itself out.

Shame to miss it but with April you have a good chance :) you will need to look for Mars in Libra :)