{"id":5574,"date":"2014-03-19T06:27:26","date_gmt":"2014-03-19T10:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=5574"},"modified":"2014-03-19T12:11:07","modified_gmt":"2014-03-19T16:11:07","slug":"regulus-occultation-prep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2014\/03\/regulus-occultation-prep\/","title":{"rendered":"Regulus occultation prep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-5574-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/captured-file-018-1.m4v?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/captured-file-018-1.m4v\">http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/captured-file-018-1.m4v<\/a><\/video><\/div><br \/>\nThis is a short 10 second video of Jupiter and its four Galilean moons using the system we hope to capture the occultation of Regulus Thursday morning around 02:06 EDT.<br \/>\nFrom Jupiter outward:<br \/>\nJupiter Magnitude -1.88<br \/>\nEuropa Mag 6.17<br \/>\nIo Mag 5.88<br \/>\nCallisto Mag 6.50<br \/>\nGanymede Mag 5.49<\/p>\n<p>This enabled us to measure a Field of View with the far edge of Jupiter to Ganymede being about 5 minutes of arc across.  The FOV for the original frame was approx 18 minutes wide by 14 minutes high.<br \/>\nThis video was compressed with Handbrake and it actually cropped off some of the edges.<br \/>\nThe video posted here (before any alterations from the web site, was 14 minutes wide by 10 minutes high.<\/p>\n<p>The next video is of the target for tomorrow, the star Regulus at Mag 1.35.  The star nearby (TYC833-134-1) is Mag 8.15<br \/>\n<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-5574-2\" width=\"640\" height=\"357\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/captured-file-016-1.m4v?_=2\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/captured-file-016-1.m4v\">http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/captured-file-016-1.m4v<\/a><\/video><\/div><\/p>\n<p>The GPS time inserter shows from left to right, the UT time in hours minutes seconds and on the right the sequence frame number.<br \/>\nThe inside set  of two numbers is supposed to be the milliseconds of the beginning of the frame and the milliseconds of the end of the frame.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Brian for the loan of this VTI (Video Time Inserter) unit!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a short 10 second video of Jupiter and its four Galilean moons using the system we hope to capture the occultation of Regulus Thursday morning around 02:06 EDT. From Jupiter outward: Jupiter Magnitude -1.88 Europa Mag 6.17 Io Mag 5.88 Callisto Mag 6.50 Ganymede Mag 5.49 This enabled us to measure a Field [&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-5574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5574","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=5574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}