{"id":10609,"date":"2024-07-19T21:03:48","date_gmt":"2024-07-20T01:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=10609"},"modified":"2024-07-19T21:03:48","modified_gmt":"2024-07-20T01:03:48","slug":"saturn-20240718","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2024\/07\/saturn-20240718\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturn 20240718"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/2024-07-18-0836_9-k-l-sat_zwo_asi585mc_exposure21ms_lapl6_ap27_drizzle15p10reg1bal.png-annotated.png.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/2024-07-18-0836_9-k-l-sat_zwo_asi585mc_exposure21ms_lapl6_ap27_drizzle15p10reg1bal.png-annotated.png-264x299.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"264\" height=\"299\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10610\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/2024-07-18-0836_9-k-l-sat_zwo_asi585mc_exposure21ms_lapl6_ap27_drizzle15p10reg1bal.png-annotated.png-264x299.jpg 264w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/2024-07-18-0836_9-k-l-sat_zwo_asi585mc_exposure21ms_lapl6_ap27_drizzle15p10reg1bal.png-annotated.png-903x1023.jpg 903w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/2024-07-18-0836_9-k-l-sat_zwo_asi585mc_exposure21ms_lapl6_ap27_drizzle15p10reg1bal.png-annotated.png-132x150.jpg 132w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/2024-07-18-0836_9-k-l-sat_zwo_asi585mc_exposure21ms_lapl6_ap27_drizzle15p10reg1bal.png-annotated.png-768x870.jpg 768w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/2024-07-18-0836_9-k-l-sat_zwo_asi585mc_exposure21ms_lapl6_ap27_drizzle15p10reg1bal.png-annotated.png.jpg 1224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 264px) 100vw, 264px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThis is Saturn, early in the morning on Thursday 2024 July 18.<br \/>\nIt is nearing transitting due south, its highest point in the sky, but for now remains very low.<br \/>\nThis causes us to see through a lot more atmosphere than otherwise and the image suffers from poor focus, atmospheric dispersion and a lot of bad seeing.<\/p>\n<p>This is the best 10% of  8400 frames at 21ms each in a 180 second run.  Altitude was about 40 degrees and Saturn&#8217;s size is about 18 arcseconds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is Saturn, early in the morning on Thursday 2024 July 18. It is nearing transitting due south, its highest point in the sky, but for now remains very low. This causes us to see through a lot more atmosphere than otherwise and the image suffers from poor focus, atmospheric dispersion and a lot of [&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-10609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10609","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=10609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10611,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10609\/revisions\/10611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}