I remember last year setting up my camcorder on a tripod to film Mars when it was just 56m miles away, the closest this century or something they said. Well I zoomed in (this thing only had 22x optical) and I filmed it for hours.
When you fast forwarded you could see the planet moving out of the field of view, dunno if this was the earth moving or Mars. It was a deep pink colour and I was delighted.
Turns out it wasn't Mars but Jupiter or Venus (I was filming the wrong side of the sky!).
Thank God I wasn't filming Uranus. That would have been a 'bummer'.