{"id":10664,"date":"2024-09-07T11:27:30","date_gmt":"2024-09-07T15:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=10664"},"modified":"2024-09-07T11:27:30","modified_gmt":"2024-09-07T15:27:30","slug":"jupiter-io-io-shadow-transit-20240906","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2024\/09\/jupiter-io-io-shadow-transit-20240906\/","title":{"rendered":"Jupiter, Io, Io shadow transit 20240906"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/2024-09-06-0925_6-k-l-jup-io-ioshadow-grs_zwo_asi585mc_exposure3ms_lapl6_ap127_drizzle15p5reg1bal.png-annotated.png.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/2024-09-06-0925_6-k-l-jup-io-ioshadow-grs_zwo_asi585mc_exposure3ms_lapl6_ap127_drizzle15p5reg1bal.png-annotated.png-254x299.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"254\" height=\"299\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10665\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/2024-09-06-0925_6-k-l-jup-io-ioshadow-grs_zwo_asi585mc_exposure3ms_lapl6_ap127_drizzle15p5reg1bal.png-annotated.png-254x299.jpg 254w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/2024-09-06-0925_6-k-l-jup-io-ioshadow-grs_zwo_asi585mc_exposure3ms_lapl6_ap127_drizzle15p5reg1bal.png-annotated.png-871x1023.jpg 871w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/2024-09-06-0925_6-k-l-jup-io-ioshadow-grs_zwo_asi585mc_exposure3ms_lapl6_ap127_drizzle15p5reg1bal.png-annotated.png-128x150.jpg 128w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/2024-09-06-0925_6-k-l-jup-io-ioshadow-grs_zwo_asi585mc_exposure3ms_lapl6_ap127_drizzle15p5reg1bal.png-annotated.png-768x902.jpg 768w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/2024-09-06-0925_6-k-l-jup-io-ioshadow-grs_zwo_asi585mc_exposure3ms_lapl6_ap127_drizzle15p5reg1bal.png-annotated.png.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 254px) 100vw, 254px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Again serendipity strikes&#8230; outside at 04:00 EDT to imaging Jupiter and continue to commission the Celestron 9.25 with a x1.5 barlow and low! Io is very close to Jupiter and its shadow was starting a transit of Jupiter.. right near the Great Red Spot!<br \/>\nVery nice.  We imaged until it wsa too bright (dawn was approaching) and it was time for work.  This is the best of about 10 runs.<br \/>\nDetails and resolution are better than the previous 8&#8243; optical tube as well.<\/p>\n<p>This was the best 5% of 7200 frames with exposures of 3ms over a run of 60 seconds.  Jupiter&#8217;s altitude was phenomenal.. 58 degrees high!  The airmass was about 1.18  Jupiter&#8217;s diameter was 39 arcseconds <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Again serendipity strikes&#8230; outside at 04:00 EDT to imaging Jupiter and continue to commission the Celestron 9.25 with a x1.5 barlow and low! Io is very close to Jupiter and its shadow was starting a transit of Jupiter.. right near the Great Red Spot! Very nice. We imaged until it wsa too bright (dawn was [&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-10664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10664","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=10664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10666,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10664\/revisions\/10666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}