{"id":11296,"date":"2026-11-01T09:26:26","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T13:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=11296"},"modified":"2026-11-01T09:26:26","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T13:26:26","slug":"saturn-20261029-spokes-in-the-rings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2026\/11\/saturn-20261029-spokes-in-the-rings\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturn 20261029 – Spokes in the Rings!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Thanks to the folks who stayed behind the weekly chat and kept me awake for more time. I was able to complete a 3 hour 10 minute imaging run of Saturn. It could have gone longer if I trusted the cable wrap issue on the mount. but I am glad I did not. Packed it in before midnight and the cables were in fact pretty tight.<\/p>\n

So.. another thanks to Andrea for showing the rotating spokes of Saturns Rings. I had not thought of ever doing anything like that and I liked it!<\/p>\n

So.. 48 imaging runs of Saturn last night from 00:27 to 03:36 UTC were completed. Saturn had just reached highest altitude of about 46 degrees. Each run was 180 seconds with a 60 second pause. The best 10% were processed with autostakkert! v4 and then all 48 images were put through registax for wavelet processing and then imagemagick for annotation.<\/p>\n

I got rotating spokes in the rings! Woohoo!<\/p>\n

I then took a crop of the animated gif to get this attached 400×300 pixel 1.3MB animated gif image.<\/p>\n

I’ve also included one of the last better stills of the session.<\/p>\n

Wow. I am still gobsmacked.. especially what with the bright moon about 60 degrees away, lighting up the sky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thanks to the folks who stayed behind the weekly chat and kept me awake for more time. I was able to complete a 3 hour 10 minute imaging run of Saturn. It could have gone longer if I trusted the cable wrap issue on the mount. but I am glad I did not. Packed it […]<\/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-11296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11296","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=11296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11298,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11296\/revisions\/11298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}