{"id":10667,"date":"2024-09-07T12:05:03","date_gmt":"2024-09-07T16:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=10667"},"modified":"2024-09-07T12:05:22","modified_gmt":"2024-09-07T16:05:22","slug":"saturn-20240906","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2024\/09\/saturn-20240906\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturn 20240906"},"content":{"rendered":"

A reminder that Saturn opposition 2024 is tonight\/tomorrow and this is a good chance to get your best planetary observing\/imaging of the season. At approx 01:00 EDT Sunday, Saturn will be az: 177 deg, alt 38 degrees<\/p>\n

of course the weather is not cooperating:
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I will try in any event and perhaps get some sucker holes to shoot through… I only need 30 or 60 seconds! for each imaging run.<\/p>\n

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\nThis image was from Friday morning just before dawn, unfortunately veryvery low in the west, only 18 degrees of altitude.<\/p>\n

This makes seeing very poor and also drops the effective magnitude.<\/p>\n

Saturns’ diameter was 19 arc seconds and this is the best 10% of 7700 frames of 23ms each.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A reminder that Saturn opposition 2024 is tonight\/tomorrow and this is a good chance to get your best planetary observing\/imaging of the season. At approx 01:00 EDT Sunday, Saturn will be az: 177 deg, alt 38 degrees of course the weather is not cooperating: I will try in any event and perhaps get some sucker […]<\/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-10667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10667","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=10667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10670,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10667\/revisions\/10670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}