{"id":11010,"date":"2025-10-19T08:01:43","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T12:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=11010"},"modified":"2025-10-19T08:01:43","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T12:01:43","slug":"jupiter-20251019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2025\/10\/jupiter-20251019\/","title":{"rendered":"Jupiter 20251019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2025-10-19-0925_3-k-l-jup_zwo_asi585mc_exposure4ms_lapl6_ap88_drizzle15p5reg1bal.png-annotated.gimp_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2025-10-19-0925_3-k-l-jup_zwo_asi585mc_exposure4ms_lapl6_ap88_drizzle15p5reg1bal.png-annotated.gimp_-195x299.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"299\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-11011\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2025-10-19-0925_3-k-l-jup_zwo_asi585mc_exposure4ms_lapl6_ap88_drizzle15p5reg1bal.png-annotated.gimp_-195x299.jpg 195w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2025-10-19-0925_3-k-l-jup_zwo_asi585mc_exposure4ms_lapl6_ap88_drizzle15p5reg1bal.png-annotated.gimp_-98x150.jpg 98w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2025-10-19-0925_3-k-l-jup_zwo_asi585mc_exposure4ms_lapl6_ap88_drizzle15p5reg1bal.png-annotated.gimp_.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last nights forecast for this morning showed me 100% high cloud.  High cloud is sometimes totally transparent, sometimes totally opaque<\/p>\n<p>At 05:00 edt this morning it was a mixture of both&#8230; exposures were about 20-40% higher, so the transparency was poor, plus  there were thick clouds moving through the field as well.<\/p>\n<p>This was the best of 15 runs (each run was 180 seconds, approx 25K frames at 4ms each, stacking the best 5%.  The Great Red Spot is just exiting on the lower right.<\/p>\n<p>The session ended when Jupiter disappeared completely.  I check the findercam as well and it was dark.  I ramped up the exposures in case of a little cloud, but still did not see anything.  I feared a runaway mount or cable wrap or something like that.  Raced outside to find Jupiter totally clouded over.<\/p>\n<p>Below is an attached 2MB animated GIF of the runs as well.  Overall a poor imaging session.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/jupiter-2025-10-19-1016_3.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/jupiter-2025-10-19-1016_3-195x299.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"299\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-11012\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/jupiter-2025-10-19-1016_3-195x299.gif 195w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/jupiter-2025-10-19-1016_3-98x150.gif 98w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last nights forecast for this morning showed me 100% high cloud. High cloud is sometimes totally transparent, sometimes totally opaque At 05:00 edt this morning it was a mixture of both&#8230; exposures were about 20-40% higher, so the transparency was poor, plus there were thick clouds moving through the field as well. This was the [&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-11010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11010","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=11010"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11013,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11010\/revisions\/11013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}