{"id":10595,"date":"2024-07-16T07:26:02","date_gmt":"2024-07-16T11:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=10595"},"modified":"2024-07-16T07:26:51","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T11:26:51","slug":"titan-transit-of-saturn-20240716","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2024\/07\/titan-transit-of-saturn-20240716\/","title":{"rendered":"Titan transit of Saturn 20240716"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/2024-07-16-0835_1-k-l-sat_titan-transit-zwo_asi585mc_exposure25ms_lapl6_ap32_drizzle15p10reg1bal.png-annotated.png-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/2024-07-16-0835_1-k-l-sat_titan-transit-zwo_asi585mc_exposure25ms_lapl6_ap32_drizzle15p10reg1bal.png-annotated.png-1-259x299.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"259\" height=\"299\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10597\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/2024-07-16-0835_1-k-l-sat_titan-transit-zwo_asi585mc_exposure25ms_lapl6_ap32_drizzle15p10reg1bal.png-annotated.png-1-259x299.jpg 259w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/2024-07-16-0835_1-k-l-sat_titan-transit-zwo_asi585mc_exposure25ms_lapl6_ap32_drizzle15p10reg1bal.png-annotated.png-1-887x1023.jpg 887w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/2024-07-16-0835_1-k-l-sat_titan-transit-zwo_asi585mc_exposure25ms_lapl6_ap32_drizzle15p10reg1bal.png-annotated.png-1-130x150.jpg 130w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/2024-07-16-0835_1-k-l-sat_titan-transit-zwo_asi585mc_exposure25ms_lapl6_ap32_drizzle15p10reg1bal.png-annotated.png-1-768x886.jpg 768w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/2024-07-16-0835_1-k-l-sat_titan-transit-zwo_asi585mc_exposure25ms_lapl6_ap32_drizzle15p10reg1bal.png-annotated.png-1.jpg 1212w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 259px) 100vw, 259px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nSerendipidy got us up and outside at 04:00 this morning and only then realized that it was one of the rare Titan transits the planet Saturn dates!  The transit ran from 02:00-06:00 EDT approximately.<br \/>\nIt was not forecast to be clear this morning and indeed it was not.  quite a lot of haze (transparency poor, seeing average) and I got 9 imaging runs done as the cloud rolled in along with the fog.<br \/>\nexposures were approx 35ms in a 180 second run.<br \/>\nThis image was the best of 10%, processed with autostakkert! v4 , drizzled x1.5 and then into registax for wavelet processing.<br \/>\nThe scope continues to behave well as Saturn did in fact appear in the FOV of the primary camera after the initial slew to Saturn.<br \/>\nTitan appears as a dark spot near the bottom of Saturn.<br \/>\nBelow is an animated .GIF of the 9 imaging runs, with the last ramping up from 35ms to 50ms and a lot of cloud.<br \/>\nThe animated GIF shows Titan moving from left to right.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/z2024-07-16-0848_7-k-saturn.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/z2024-07-16-0848_7-k-saturn-259x299.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"259\" height=\"299\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10598\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/z2024-07-16-0848_7-k-saturn-259x299.gif 259w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/z2024-07-16-0848_7-k-saturn-887x1023.gif 887w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/z2024-07-16-0848_7-k-saturn-130x150.gif 130w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/z2024-07-16-0848_7-k-saturn-768x886.gif 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 259px) 100vw, 259px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Serendipidy got us up and outside at 04:00 this morning and only then realized that it was one of the rare Titan transits the planet Saturn dates! The transit ran from 02:00-06:00 EDT approximately. It was not forecast to be clear this morning and indeed it was not. quite a lot of haze (transparency poor, [&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-10595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10595","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=10595"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10600,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10595\/revisions\/10600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}