{"id":11276,"date":"2026-08-29T07:20:28","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T11:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=11276"},"modified":"2026-08-29T07:20:44","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T11:20:44","slug":"saturn-20260829","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2026\/08\/saturn-20260829\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturn 20260829"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/2026-08-29-0818_3-kvnkll-wl-saturn_zwo_asi585mc_exp13ms_gain460_drizzle15p10reg1bal-uvir-see5-trans2.png-annotated.gimp_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/2026-08-29-0818_3-kvnkll-wl-saturn_zwo_asi585mc_exp13ms_gain460_drizzle15p10reg1bal-uvir-see5-trans2.png-annotated.gimp_-242x299.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"242\" height=\"299\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-11277\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/2026-08-29-0818_3-kvnkll-wl-saturn_zwo_asi585mc_exp13ms_gain460_drizzle15p10reg1bal-uvir-see5-trans2.png-annotated.gimp_-242x299.jpg 242w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/2026-08-29-0818_3-kvnkll-wl-saturn_zwo_asi585mc_exp13ms_gain460_drizzle15p10reg1bal-uvir-see5-trans2.png-annotated.gimp_-829x1023.jpg 829w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/2026-08-29-0818_3-kvnkll-wl-saturn_zwo_asi585mc_exp13ms_gain460_drizzle15p10reg1bal-uvir-see5-trans2.png-annotated.gimp_-122x150.jpg 122w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/2026-08-29-0818_3-kvnkll-wl-saturn_zwo_asi585mc_exp13ms_gain460_drizzle15p10reg1bal-uvir-see5-trans2.png-annotated.gimp_-768x947.jpg 768w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/2026-08-29-0818_3-kvnkll-wl-saturn_zwo_asi585mc_exp13ms_gain460_drizzle15p10reg1bal-uvir-see5-trans2.png-annotated.gimp_.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 242px) 100vw, 242px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Even getting up 30 minutes earlier, at 03:30 EDT, does not mean Saturn is still in the east.   It has moved to the west, an azimuth of over 180 degrees!  This also means that I missed the peak altitude by <this much>.<\/p>\n<p>This was the best of 20 runs, each at 240 second with an exposure of 13ms, using autogain to keep the histogram around 90% of max.  Best 10% processed out of 17K frames but autostakkert showed that I should have gone with the best 5%.. seeing and transparency  was that bad.<\/p>\n<p>seeing was average 5\/10 to start but steadily got worse.  Transparency.. letsee. .full moon less than 45 degrees away.. poor!  2\/10<\/p>\n<p>Titan does  show up a little in the bottom right.  Other moons should be in the image as well (Dione, Tethys, Enceladus) but do not.  I will try wavesharp again to bring them out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even getting up 30 minutes earlier, at 03:30 EDT, does not mean Saturn is still in the east. It has moved to the west, an azimuth of over 180 degrees! This also means that I missed the peak altitude by . This was the best of 20 runs, each at 240 second with an exposure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11277,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11276","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\/11276","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=11276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11278,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11276\/revisions\/11278"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}