{"id":6616,"date":"2015-11-17T12:58:35","date_gmt":"2015-11-17T16:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=6616"},"modified":"2015-11-17T12:59:08","modified_gmt":"2015-11-17T16:59:08","slug":"jupiter-20151117","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2015\/11\/jupiter-20151117\/","title":{"rendered":"Jupiter 20151117"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/jupiter20151117-0950UTC.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/jupiter20151117-0950UTC.gif\" alt=\"jupiter20151117-0950UTC\" width=\"264\" height=\"256\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6617\" \/>jupiter20151117-0950UTC<\/a><br \/>\nBest images to date!<br \/>\nGreat morning.  Outside at  04:30 EST, packed up before 05:30 EST<\/p>\n<p>At the time it may not always seem like a good idea, but in reality, having another astronomer in the house to get oneself outside in the morning is a *very good idea*.<\/p>\n<p>Kim did some visual observing of Jupiter, watched for Leonid meteors (not  very many), and did some canon ELPH imaging of the waning planetary conjunction.<\/p>\n<p>I did some more Jupiter imaging, this time a run of 9 (it was 10 but one was not very good), across 30 minutes&#8230; ie a new image every 3 minutes.<br \/>\n5ms exposures for 120 seconds, resulting in the 12000 frames + or &#8211; range.<br \/>\nthen a 60 second wait and then another run.<\/p>\n<p>This time I took the best 25% of the images for stacking and wavelet processing, then put the 9 images into an animated .GIF above.<\/p>\n<p>Being so early in the morning, and the coffee was still perking&#8230; I forgot to turn on the debayer in the camera capture software (still not exactly sure how this affects the image).<br \/>\nThe good news  was, no condensation on the primary at all for the whole run!<br \/>\nSeeing was average-good as was transparency (average-good).<br \/>\nI judge seeing by how much the image bounces around my selected Region Of Interest (strictly qualitative) and transparency by the exposure needed to make the histogram hit 80%.  The lower the better.<\/p>\n<p>Just towards the end of the animation you can see the Great Red Spot appearing from the left hand side.<br \/>\nNorth is up, rotation  is left to right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>jupiter20151117-0950UTC Best images to date! Great morning. Outside at 04:30 EST, packed up before 05:30 EST At the time it may not always seem like a good idea, but in reality, having another astronomer in the house to get oneself outside in the morning is a *very good idea*. Kim did some visual observing of [&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-6616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6616","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=6616"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6619,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6616\/revisions\/6619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}