Most likely it's Jupiter. According to the software I use to run my telescope and plan my observations, Jupiter rose at about 6:40 pm and set the following day at about 8:30 am. It would have been about -2.6 magnitude ,making it the brightest natural object in the sky that night. It, of course, rose in the east and would have traveled in an arc across the sky that dipped a little south.
It could also have been Betelgeuse, or even Sirius (for Sirius, it would probably need to be fairly low in the sky when the picture was taken to account for the color). But my best guess is still Jupiter.
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