{"id":8305,"date":"2018-08-27T08:28:05","date_gmt":"2018-08-27T12:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=8305"},"modified":"2018-08-27T08:28:05","modified_gmt":"2018-08-27T12:28:05","slug":"serenity-imaging-day-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2018\/08\/serenity-imaging-day-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Serenity Imaging Day 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

Serenity Imaging Day 3<\/p>\n

Another hour last night from when the stars came out until the mosquitos drove me indoors.<\/p>\n

Successful alignment with Arcturus and Altair (after 3 attempts), pointing within 1\/2 degree and tracking well.<\/p>\n

Humidity was high, transparency was worse than poor, seeing was poor.<\/p>\n

The full moon was just coming up on the eastern horizon and Jupiter was about to disappear between our Oasis Ash tree.<\/p>\n

I’ll not include as many technical details as this is still a work in progress and commissioning still requires a few more steps before it settles into “normal”.<\/p>\n

Still using a 90 degree diagonal and asi120mc camera at f10. In coming days, the diagonal comes off and the x2 barlow goes in.<\/p>\n

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Jupiter is showing only the main bands, no real surface detail <\/p>\n

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Saturn at or near transit is showing one surface band, no cassini division. <\/p>\n

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\nMars *is* showing some surface detail, mainly the south pole cap and some dark mares in the southern hemisphere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Serenity Imaging Day 3 Another hour last night from when the stars came out until the mosquitos drove me indoors. Successful alignment with Arcturus and Altair (after 3 attempts), pointing within 1\/2 degree and tracking well. Humidity was high, transparency was worse than poor, seeing was poor. The full moon was just coming up on […]<\/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-8305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8305","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=8305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8309,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8305\/revisions\/8309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}