Mars' great 2003 opposition season, the best in an extremely long time span (some claiming a span of 50,000 years), culminated in its August 28 opposi-tion.  Here we see Mars, still blazingly bright, three weeks after that time, now over in the extreme western part of Aquarius and just to the south of Uranus.  Mars is magnitude -2.47 and 22.92" arcseconds across, while Uranus is magnitude +5.73 and a meager 3.66" arcseconds in diameter.  That is about the diameter that Mars can get when it is on the far side of the Sun from Earth.