{"id":6852,"date":"2016-03-20T09:01:50","date_gmt":"2016-03-20T13:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=6852"},"modified":"2016-03-20T09:07:20","modified_gmt":"2016-03-20T13:07:20","slug":"mars-20160319","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2016\/03\/mars-20160319\/","title":{"rendered":"Mars 20160319"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a late night of imaging Jupiter, I was up early on Saturday morning with a coffee, brain not yet engaged, when I looked outside to see it still dark and clear skies!<br \/>\nMars! Out I go to get i na few imaging runs before it got too bright.  These were taken Saturday morning 2016 March 19th from 06:35 to 06:39 EDT (10&#8243;35 to 10:39 UT)<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Mars_20160319_103506_castr_g3_ap19r.png-annotated.png\" alt=\"Mars_20160319_103506_castr_g3_ap19r.png-annotated\" width=\"309\" height=\"218\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Mars_20160319_103506_castr_g3_ap19r.png-annotated.png 309w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Mars_20160319_103506_castr_g3_ap19r.png-annotated-150x106.png 150w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Mars_20160319_103506_castr_g3_ap19r.png-annotated-299x211.png 299w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 309px) 100vw, 309px\" \/><br \/>\nNone are spectacular by any means, but they are probably the best to date as well.<br \/>\nMars is 10&#8243; arcseconds large; 2649 frames were capture at 11ms exposures over 30 seconds.<br \/>\nNine images were taken like that and the last one for 60 seconds.  The best 75% of the images were stacked and processed.<\/p>\n<p>20cm Meade LX200GPS f20 with x2 celestron barlow alt az mounted, zwo asi120mc camera, dew shield, dew heater.<\/p>\n<p>The animation below shows 10 images over 5 minutes or so, not really enough to show any rotation.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/mars.gif\" alt=\"mars\" width=\"309\" height=\"218\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6854\" \/><\/p>\n<p>azimuth was 196 degrees, past due south and zenith and altitude was 24 degrees, very low and in lots of atmospheric muck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a late night of imaging Jupiter, I was up early on Saturday morning with a coffee, brain not yet engaged, when I looked outside to see it still dark and clear skies! Mars! Out I go to get i na few imaging runs before it got too bright. These were taken Saturday morning 2016 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-the-universe-and-everything"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6852","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=6852"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6864,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6852\/revisions\/6864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}