{"id":10382,"date":"2023-08-30T09:09:33","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T13:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=10382"},"modified":"2023-08-30T09:09:33","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T13:09:33","slug":"saturn-20230827-opposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2023\/08\/saturn-20230827-opposition\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturn 20230827 &#8211; opposition!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/2023-08-27-0523_9-k-l-sat_zwo_asi585mc_exposure36ms_lapl5_ap65_drizzle15p10reg1bal.png-annotated.png.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/2023-08-27-0523_9-k-l-sat_zwo_asi585mc_exposure36ms_lapl5_ap65_drizzle15p10reg1bal.png-annotated.png-919x1023.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"579\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-10383\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/2023-08-27-0523_9-k-l-sat_zwo_asi585mc_exposure36ms_lapl5_ap65_drizzle15p10reg1bal.png-annotated.png-919x1023.jpg 919w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/2023-08-27-0523_9-k-l-sat_zwo_asi585mc_exposure36ms_lapl5_ap65_drizzle15p10reg1bal.png-annotated.png-269x299.jpg 269w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/2023-08-27-0523_9-k-l-sat_zwo_asi585mc_exposure36ms_lapl5_ap65_drizzle15p10reg1bal.png-annotated.png-135x150.jpg 135w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/2023-08-27-0523_9-k-l-sat_zwo_asi585mc_exposure36ms_lapl5_ap65_drizzle15p10reg1bal.png-annotated.png-768x855.jpg 768w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/2023-08-27-0523_9-k-l-sat_zwo_asi585mc_exposure36ms_lapl5_ap65_drizzle15p10reg1bal.png-annotated.png.jpg 1356w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the first times that I can remember that I have been able to image a planet at opposition.  In theory this would be the closest and best time to image.<br \/>\nThis is Saturn from Sunday morning around 01:23 EDT (05:23 UTC-4)<br \/>\ndetails are annotated on the image so I won&#8217;t repeat a lot of those.  In short this was the best 10% of 6700 frames each exposed for 36ms.<br \/>\nOne of my best Saturns I think.  Always looking to make it better though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the first times that I can remember that I have been able to image a planet at opposition. In theory this would be the closest and best time to image. This is Saturn from Sunday morning around 01:23 EDT (05:23 UTC-4) details are annotated on the image so I won&#8217;t repeat a lot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10384,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10382\/revisions\/10384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}