{"id":6283,"date":"2015-04-14T05:17:16","date_gmt":"2015-04-14T09:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=6283"},"modified":"2015-04-14T08:16:53","modified_gmt":"2015-04-14T12:16:53","slug":"saturn-2015-april-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2015\/04\/saturn-2015-april-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturn 2015 April 14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_6284\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6284\" style=\"width: 299px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Sat_20150414_075804_g4_ap13_Drizzle15_conv-469.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Sat_20150414_075804_g4_ap13_Drizzle15_conv-469-299x190.png\" alt=\"Saturn 2015 April 14\" width=\"299\" height=\"190\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Sat_20150414_075804_g4_ap13_Drizzle15_conv-469-299x190.png 299w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Sat_20150414_075804_g4_ap13_Drizzle15_conv-469-150x95.png 150w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Sat_20150414_075804_g4_ap13_Drizzle15_conv-469.png 469w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6284\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Saturn 2015 April 14 x2barlow FL=4000mm<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nSaturn on the morning of Tuesday 2015 April 14th, about 04:00 EDT<br \/>\n20cm Meade LX200GPS (FL=2000mm) with a celestron x2 barlow (=FL=4000mm) and ZWO ASI 120MC camera.<br \/>\n744 frames of 35ms each over 60 seconds.  The best 75% of the frames were used for this image.<br \/>\ntransparency was average, seeing was poor.  A storm had swept through a few hours earlier and the air was very humid at 2 deg C.  The front corrector plate dewed over fairly quickly.<\/p>\n<p>The image below is without the barlow, shorter exposures and 1330 frames in total, with 75% used to stack.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6287\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6287\" style=\"width: 289px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Sat_20150414_080922_g4_ap7_Drizzle15_conv-300.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Sat_20150414_080922_g4_ap7_Drizzle15_conv-300.png\" alt=\"Saturn\" width=\"289\" height=\"193\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Sat_20150414_080922_g4_ap7_Drizzle15_conv-300.png 289w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Sat_20150414_080922_g4_ap7_Drizzle15_conv-300-150x100.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 289px) 100vw, 289px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6287\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Saturn FL=2000mm<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Bad focus and a poor image is directly related to the low altitude at transit (about 26 degrees up) and the bad seeing after the storm&#8230;. and maybe the dew on the front glass \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturn on the morning of Tuesday 2015 April 14th, about 04:00 EDT 20cm Meade LX200GPS (FL=2000mm) with a celestron x2 barlow (=FL=4000mm) and ZWO ASI 120MC camera. 744 frames of 35ms each over 60 seconds. The best 75% of the frames were used for this image. transparency was average, seeing was poor. A storm had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6283","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\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6283"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6291,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6283\/revisions\/6291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}