{"id":6340,"date":"2015-05-07T15:24:34","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T19:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=6340"},"modified":"2015-05-07T15:24:34","modified_gmt":"2015-05-07T19:24:34","slug":"jupiter-2015may06","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2015\/05\/jupiter-2015may06\/","title":{"rendered":"Jupiter 2015May06"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After catching up on a little TV, waiting for the black flies to die down, and seeing Montreal was losing yet another hockey game, we went outside around 21:00 EDT and did a little observing and imaging of Jupiter.<\/p>\n<p>The LX200GPS handcontroller continues to have issues.  Barely a minute into operations it locked up requiring a power cycle and a 15 minute realignment.  I am seriously looking at the StarPatch firmare upgrade this weekend.. 3rd party software that fixes a lot of issues and introduces some new features.<\/p>\n<p>We did 7 imaging runs of 30 and 60 seconds over the course of 10 minutes.  All turned out not too bad despite a low level of haze\/high humidity.<br \/>\nSometimes planetary imaging turns out a little better when that happens&#8230; better contrast ?<\/p>\n<p>20cm scope F10, FL=2000mm, tracking not too bad.  seeing average, still twilight<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/jupiter_20150507_012817_g3_ap7_Drizzle15_conv.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/jupiter_20150507_012817_g3_ap7_Drizzle15_conv.png\" alt=\"jupiter_20150507_012817_g3_ap7_Drizzle15_conv\" width=\"202\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6341\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/jupiter_20150507_012817_g3_ap7_Drizzle15_conv.png 202w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/jupiter_20150507_012817_g3_ap7_Drizzle15_conv-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nIn any event here is the first image from 01:28UT a 30 second exposure showing the Great Red Spot clearly near the South Equatorial Band to the right side.  There are some interesting features in the North Equatorial Belt as well.<\/p>\n<p>This is the last image, taken some 10 minutes later.<br \/>\nThe GRS has noticably moved.  I have attempted to get some animated combinations but there is some glitch.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/jupiter_20150507_013852_g3_ap34_Drizzle15_conv.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/jupiter_20150507_013852_g3_ap34_Drizzle15_conv.png\" alt=\"jupiter_20150507_013852_g3_ap34_Drizzle15_conv\" width=\"200\" height=\"198\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/jupiter_20150507_013852_g3_ap34_Drizzle15_conv.png 200w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/jupiter_20150507_013852_g3_ap34_Drizzle15_conv-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWould have loved to stay out all night but for pressing life needs&#8230; sleep needed for work today \ud83d\ude41<br \/>\nEventually will get a dusk to dawn time lapse every 5 or 10 minutes and put that together&#8230; will be awesome!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After catching up on a little TV, waiting for the black flies to die down, and seeing Montreal was losing yet another hockey game, we went outside around 21:00 EDT and did a little observing and imaging of Jupiter. The LX200GPS handcontroller continues to have issues. Barely a minute into operations it locked up requiring [&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-6340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6340","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=6340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6343,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6340\/revisions\/6343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}