{"id":7056,"date":"2016-06-24T10:06:24","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T14:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=7056"},"modified":"2016-06-24T10:06:24","modified_gmt":"2016-06-24T14:06:24","slug":"mars-2016-june-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2016\/06\/mars-2016-june-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Mars 2016 June 23"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Mars_20160624_012448_Exposure14.png-annotated.png\" alt=\"Mars_20160624_012448_Exposure=14.png-annotated\" width=\"400\" height=\"426\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7057\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Mars_20160624_012448_Exposure14.png-annotated.png 400w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Mars_20160624_012448_Exposure14.png-annotated-141x150.png 141w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Mars_20160624_012448_Exposure14.png-annotated-281x299.png 281w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>We went out Thursday evening 2016 June 23rd after sunset.. ie 21:00EDT!  wow!<\/p>\n<p>Found Mars pretty quickly and ran 10 imaging sessions from 01:11 UT to 01:28UT.. only 17 minutes!<\/p>\n<p>And that was because of the hungry bity hordes of mosquitos. Ich!<\/p>\n<p>The sky was barely into twilight and there was still a lot of haze in the target area (transparency=poor).<\/p>\n<p>Seeing was also poor as Mars was jumping around like crazy. Thank goodness for software based compensation!<\/p>\n<p>These are the best 50% of approx 3600 images taken in each 60 second run, with an exposure in the region of 14ms.<\/p>\n<p>The Mars Previewer II program tells me that the Central Meridian is 207.39 and that some of the features are:<\/p>\n<p>Syrtis Major dark blob in the lower left of the planet and Utopia on the upper left.<br \/>\nMars rotates much slower than Jupiter and  in the 17 minutes in the imaging session, there is not a lot of rotation visible:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/mars-1.gif\" alt=\"mars\" width=\"400\" height=\"426\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7058\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We went out Thursday evening 2016 June 23rd after sunset.. ie 21:00EDT! wow! Found Mars pretty quickly and ran 10 imaging sessions from 01:11 UT to 01:28UT.. only 17 minutes! And that was because of the hungry bity hordes of mosquitos. Ich! The sky was barely into twilight and there was still a lot 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-7056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7056","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=7056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7059,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7056\/revisions\/7059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}