{"id":10778,"date":"2024-10-27T17:09:41","date_gmt":"2024-10-27T21:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=10778"},"modified":"2024-10-27T17:18:53","modified_gmt":"2024-10-27T21:18:53","slug":"mars-20241027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2024\/10\/mars-20241027\/","title":{"rendered":"Mars 20241027"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mars is now high enough to be out of the goop and is starting to show some nice detail.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/2024-10-27-0945_0-k-l-mars_zwo_asi585mc_exposure1ms_lapl6_ap28_drizzle15p5reg1bal.png-annotated.png.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/2024-10-27-0945_0-k-l-mars_zwo_asi585mc_exposure1ms_lapl6_ap28_drizzle15p5reg1bal.png-annotated.png-862x1023.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"617\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-10781\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/2024-10-27-0945_0-k-l-mars_zwo_asi585mc_exposure1ms_lapl6_ap28_drizzle15p5reg1bal.png-annotated.png-862x1023.jpg 862w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/2024-10-27-0945_0-k-l-mars_zwo_asi585mc_exposure1ms_lapl6_ap28_drizzle15p5reg1bal.png-annotated.png-252x299.jpg 252w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/2024-10-27-0945_0-k-l-mars_zwo_asi585mc_exposure1ms_lapl6_ap28_drizzle15p5reg1bal.png-annotated.png-126x150.jpg 126w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/2024-10-27-0945_0-k-l-mars_zwo_asi585mc_exposure1ms_lapl6_ap28_drizzle15p5reg1bal.png-annotated.png-768x912.jpg 768w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/2024-10-27-0945_0-k-l-mars_zwo_asi585mc_exposure1ms_lapl6_ap28_drizzle15p5reg1bal.png-annotated.png.jpg 1188w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is the best 5% of 15K frames exposed at 1ms each using an ROI of 1200&#215;1200 and a firecapture cutout of 800&#215;800.<br \/>\nThe northern polar cap is seen with the planet showing 9 arc seconds of diameter.  Some darker area north of the equator and lighter areas south.  Using Sky &#038; Telescopes Maps previewer, I could not actually match any features.<br \/>\nMars altitude was 65 degrees high.<br \/>\nThese annotations are incorrect as they state the OTA was the Vixen VC200L.  This was actually the Celestron 9.25.. have to update the scripts and reprocess the annotations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mars is now high enough to be out of the goop and is starting to show some nice detail. This is the best 5% of 15K frames exposed at 1ms each using an ROI of 1200&#215;1200 and a firecapture cutout of 800&#215;800. The northern polar cap is seen with the planet showing 9 arc seconds [&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-10778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10778","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=10778"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10782,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10778\/revisions\/10782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}