Object: Mars (near opposition) Date: 30 June 2001 - 23:20 UT Scope: Vixen VC200L - 8 inch f/9 catadioptric Cassegrain 15 mm Ploessl eyepiece projection to f/20 Camera: SBIG ST237 with color filter wheel Detail: RRGB Composition (Red set added to finale image insead of Luminance) R, G, B = Median of 9 frames for each color exp. 0.18 sec. Acquisition with Ccdops for windows 4.30 Processing - AIPWIN 1.3: align and unsharp mask single frames, Picture Window Pro 3: combine RGB set, median filter, adjust curves and color saturation, slight unsharp mask, resize +50% San Lorenzo Nuovo (Central Italy) Notes: Seeing 7/10 (very good sky transparency but unsteady sky)