{"id":11232,"date":"2026-07-10T20:15:58","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T00:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=11232"},"modified":"2026-07-10T20:16:41","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T00:16:41","slug":"saturn-20260707","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2026\/07\/saturn-20260707\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturn 20260707"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/2026-07-07-0809_0-k-l-sat_zwo_asi585mc-uvir-14ms_lapl6_ap78_drizzle15p15reg1bal.png-annotated.gimp_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/2026-07-07-0809_0-k-l-sat_zwo_asi585mc-uvir-14ms_lapl6_ap78_drizzle15p15reg1bal.png-annotated.gimp_-245x299.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"299\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-11233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/2026-07-07-0809_0-k-l-sat_zwo_asi585mc-uvir-14ms_lapl6_ap78_drizzle15p15reg1bal.png-annotated.gimp_-245x299.jpg 245w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/2026-07-07-0809_0-k-l-sat_zwo_asi585mc-uvir-14ms_lapl6_ap78_drizzle15p15reg1bal.png-annotated.gimp_-839x1023.jpg 839w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/2026-07-07-0809_0-k-l-sat_zwo_asi585mc-uvir-14ms_lapl6_ap78_drizzle15p15reg1bal.png-annotated.gimp_-123x150.jpg 123w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/2026-07-07-0809_0-k-l-sat_zwo_asi585mc-uvir-14ms_lapl6_ap78_drizzle15p15reg1bal.png-annotated.gimp_-768x937.jpg 768w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/2026-07-07-0809_0-k-l-sat_zwo_asi585mc-uvir-14ms_lapl6_ap78_drizzle15p15reg1bal.png-annotated.gimp_.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An early  imaging session of Saturn this morning.  The best image turned out to be one of the first  before it got too bright at 08:09 UTC (04:09EDT).  This is the best 15% of 12K frames captured.  The last quarter moon was nearby and the skies were bright from dawn.  Seeing was poor  2\/10, transparency was poor 2\/10<\/p>\n<p>Altitude was up to 34 degrees.. getting better each session.<br \/>\nEach run was 180seconds with exposures around 14ms each.  <\/p>\n<p>The shadow of Saturn (on the lower right) projected onto the rings is becoming quite distinct.<br \/>\nThe Cassini division is quite evident as well. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An early imaging session of Saturn this morning. The best image turned out to be one of the first before it got too bright at 08:09 UTC (04:09EDT). This is the best 15% of 12K frames captured. The last quarter moon was nearby and the skies were bright from dawn. Seeing was poor 2\/10, transparency [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11233,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-astronomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11232","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=11232"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11235,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11232\/revisions\/11235"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}