{"id":6847,"date":"2016-03-20T08:55:09","date_gmt":"2016-03-20T12:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=6847"},"modified":"2016-03-20T09:02:19","modified_gmt":"2016-03-20T13:02:19","slug":"jupiter-20160319","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2016\/03\/jupiter-20160319\/","title":{"rendered":"Jupiter 20160319"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Possibly the best imaging runs of Jupiter to date.  clear skies, -8C temp, and Jupiter near zenith.<br \/>\nStarted imaging at 20:53EDT on Friday evening 2016 March 18 and ended around 23:32 EDT as I was totally falling asleep.<br \/>\nThis was one of the best images of Jupiter taken at 23:30 EDT (03:30 UT March 19<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Jup_20160319_033046_castr_g3_ap21r.png-annotated.png\" alt=\"Jup_20160319_033046_castr_g3_ap21r.png-annotated\" width=\"400\" height=\"426\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6848\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Jup_20160319_033046_castr_g3_ap21r.png-annotated.png 400w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Jup_20160319_033046_castr_g3_ap21r.png-annotated-141x150.png 141w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Jup_20160319_033046_castr_g3_ap21r.png-annotated-281x299.png 281w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>)<br \/>\nJupiter is 44 arcseconds large, exposures were 33ms over 90 seconds giving 2664 frames, of which the best 75% were used to generate this image.<br \/>\nWhen I packed it in for the night Jupiter was at az 156 deg (not quite zenith, due south, 180 deg) and 49 deg altitude, about the best it will get.<br \/>\n  There was also an 83% phase moon nearby, not helping in the least.  What haze there was in these average seeing, average transparency skies were lit up by it.<\/p>\n<p>The Great Red Spot was not on the visible side and all of the moons were some distance away.<br \/>\n53 imaging runs in total (with a few thrown out due to bad tracking) comprise the .gif animation seen below.  Time to try a few more at zenith and then move on to larger telescopes.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6849\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6849\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/jupiter-1.gif\" alt=\"animation on 2016 March 19 from 01:53 to  03:33 UT, 53 images in total\" width=\"400\" height=\"426\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6849\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6849\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">animation on 2016 March 19 from 01:53 to  03:33 UT, 53 images in total<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>20cm Meade LX200GPS f20 with x2 celestron barlow alt az mounted, zwo asi120mc camera, dew shield, dew heater.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Possibly the best imaging runs of Jupiter to date. clear skies, -8C temp, and Jupiter near zenith. Started imaging at 20:53EDT on Friday evening 2016 March 18 and ended around 23:32 EDT as I was totally falling asleep. This was one of the best images of Jupiter taken at 23:30 EDT (03:30 UT March 19) [&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-6847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6847","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=6847"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6856,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6847\/revisions\/6856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}