{"id":10874,"date":"2025-03-12T20:46:41","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T00:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=10874"},"modified":"2025-03-12T20:46:41","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T00:46:41","slug":"mars-20250311","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2025\/03\/mars-20250311\/","title":{"rendered":"Mars 20250311"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2025-03-12-0040_2-k-l-mars_zwo_asi585mc_exposure1ms_lapl6_ap35_drizzle15p10reg1bal-gimp.png-annotated.png.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2025-03-12-0040_2-k-l-mars_zwo_asi585mc_exposure1ms_lapl6_ap35_drizzle15p10reg1bal-gimp.png-annotated.png-240x299.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"299\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10875\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2025-03-12-0040_2-k-l-mars_zwo_asi585mc_exposure1ms_lapl6_ap35_drizzle15p10reg1bal-gimp.png-annotated.png-240x299.jpg 240w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2025-03-12-0040_2-k-l-mars_zwo_asi585mc_exposure1ms_lapl6_ap35_drizzle15p10reg1bal-gimp.png-annotated.png-821x1023.jpg 821w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2025-03-12-0040_2-k-l-mars_zwo_asi585mc_exposure1ms_lapl6_ap35_drizzle15p10reg1bal-gimp.png-annotated.png-120x150.jpg 120w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2025-03-12-0040_2-k-l-mars_zwo_asi585mc_exposure1ms_lapl6_ap35_drizzle15p10reg1bal-gimp.png-annotated.png-768x957.jpg 768w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2025-03-12-0040_2-k-l-mars_zwo_asi585mc_exposure1ms_lapl6_ap35_drizzle15p10reg1bal-gimp.png-annotated.png.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Whilst waiting for the double moon shadow transit on Jupiter Tuesday evening, I did a few runs of Mars imaging.<\/p>\n<p>The wind was brutal.. gusting and then not.  It did not get a lot better for Jupiter later on.. in any event&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>This was the best 10% of 13K frames of approx 1.5ms each.  Seeing was poor, transparency was poor and the Moon was nearing full phase.<\/p>\n<p>There is some blur off to the right of the planet.. almost certainly an artefact of processing the wobbly wind blown image. Mars was less than 10 arcseconds in diameter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whilst waiting for the double moon shadow transit on Jupiter Tuesday evening, I did a few runs of Mars imaging. The wind was brutal.. gusting and then not. It did not get a lot better for Jupiter later on.. in any event&#8230; This was the best 10% of 13K frames of approx 1.5ms each. Seeing [&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-10874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10874","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=10874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10876,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10874\/revisions\/10876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}