{"id":10950,"date":"2025-07-28T10:40:39","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T14:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=10950"},"modified":"2025-07-28T10:40:39","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T14:40:39","slug":"saturn-titan-shdows-transit-20250702","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2025\/07\/saturn-titan-shdows-transit-20250702\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturn Titan shdows transit 20250702"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/2025-07-02-0914_2-k-l-sat_zwoasi585mc_exposure19ms_lapl6_ap84_drizzle15p10reg1bal.png-annotated.png.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/2025-07-02-0914_2-k-l-sat_zwoasi585mc_exposure19ms_lapl6_ap84_drizzle15p10reg1bal.png-annotated.png-221x299.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"221\" height=\"299\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10951\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/2025-07-02-0914_2-k-l-sat_zwoasi585mc_exposure19ms_lapl6_ap84_drizzle15p10reg1bal.png-annotated.png-221x299.jpg 221w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/2025-07-02-0914_2-k-l-sat_zwoasi585mc_exposure19ms_lapl6_ap84_drizzle15p10reg1bal.png-annotated.png-111x150.jpg 111w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/2025-07-02-0914_2-k-l-sat_zwoasi585mc_exposure19ms_lapl6_ap84_drizzle15p10reg1bal.png-annotated.png.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 221px) 100vw, 221px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Up and out early last Wednesday morning  (2025 July 02) around 04:00 edt (008:00 utc) to catch the shadow of the Saturnian moon Titan transitting across the surface of Saturn.<br \/>\nThis is the 2nd last imaging run of 31 runs, taken at 05:14 edt.. well into dawn (had to stop!).<br \/>\nThe white balance goes to poo this much into daylight, but the event still goes on!<br \/>\nAltitude was still low at 41 degrees, no Atmospheric Dispersion Corrector was used (yet!), seeing was poor, transparency was poor.  Firecapture with an ROI of 600&#215;600 and cutoutbox of 400&#215;400 was used to capture approx 6k frames for each run.  The rings are still at a very narrow angle and not very visible at all.  If you crank up the gamma you can make them out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Up and out early last Wednesday morning (2025 July 02) around 04:00 edt (008:00 utc) to catch the shadow of the Saturnian moon Titan transitting across the surface of Saturn. This is the 2nd last imaging run of 31 runs, taken at 05:14 edt.. well into dawn (had to stop!). The white balance goes to [&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-10950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10950","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=10950"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10952,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10950\/revisions\/10952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}