{"id":6555,"date":"2015-10-31T11:40:33","date_gmt":"2015-10-31T15:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=6555"},"modified":"2015-10-31T11:52:58","modified_gmt":"2015-10-31T15:52:58","slug":"jupiter-in-the-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2015\/10\/jupiter-in-the-morning\/","title":{"rendered":"Jupiter in the morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/jupiter_20151031_053650_g4_ap4_Drizzle15_conv.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/jupiter_20151031_053650_g4_ap4_Drizzle15_conv.png\" alt=\"jupiter_20151031_053650_g4_ap4_Drizzle15_conv\" width=\"288\" height=\"264\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6556\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/jupiter_20151031_053650_g4_ap4_Drizzle15_conv.png 288w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/jupiter_20151031_053650_g4_ap4_Drizzle15_conv-150x138.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 288px) 100vw, 288px\" \/><\/a>It&#8217;s been awhile, but we made it outside this morning around 05:00 EDT to do some planetary observing and imaging before the clouds came in.<\/p>\n<p>I ended up using the Meade SC 102mm scope mounted in the SCG Observatory on a pier.  It was the first scope I used with the zwo asi 120mc camera a year ago and going back to it felt like old home week.<\/p>\n<p>The focus was extremely stiff.<br \/>\nHas anyone dismantled an SC focus?  I am thinking some lithium grease on the threads would help but do not know offhand how much dismantling it will need to get there.<\/p>\n<p>It was warm inside the observatory with the roll off roof half closed and the doors closed.  Much better than sitting outside in a folding chair and folding table.<\/p>\n<p>This is the 2nd last image run of Jupiter, taken at 05:36, 30 seconds in total, 2640 frames, 75% of the best used .<br \/>\n11ms exposures.  Magnitude -1.8, diameter 33&#8243;<br \/>\nForgot to turn on the debayer feature so there is a lot of crosshatching artifacts .<br \/>\nProcessed with autostakkert2! v2.5.1.18 and increased pixels\/drizzled x1.5<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been awhile, but we made it outside this morning around 05:00 EDT to do some planetary observing and imaging before the clouds came in. I ended up using the Meade SC 102mm scope mounted in the SCG Observatory on a pier. It was the first scope I used with the zwo asi 120mc camera [&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-6555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6555","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=6555"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6559,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6555\/revisions\/6559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}