{"id":9066,"date":"2020-08-12T10:28:27","date_gmt":"2020-08-12T14:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=9066"},"modified":"2020-08-12T10:28:27","modified_gmt":"2020-08-12T14:28:27","slug":"perseids-saturn-jupiter-and-sagittarius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2020\/08\/perseids-saturn-jupiter-and-sagittarius\/","title":{"rendered":"Perseids, Saturn, Jupiter and Sagittarius"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/20200811_220618_CanonEOSRebelT7i_30s_F3.5_f18.0mm_ISO3200.jpg-IMG_1623.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/20200811_220618_CanonEOSRebelT7i_30s_F3.5_f18.0mm_ISO3200.jpg-IMG_1623-299x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"299\" height=\"199\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-9067\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/20200811_220618_CanonEOSRebelT7i_30s_F3.5_f18.0mm_ISO3200.jpg-IMG_1623-299x199.jpg 299w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/20200811_220618_CanonEOSRebelT7i_30s_F3.5_f18.0mm_ISO3200.jpg-IMG_1623-1023x682.jpg 1023w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/20200811_220618_CanonEOSRebelT7i_30s_F3.5_f18.0mm_ISO3200.jpg-IMG_1623-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/20200811_220618_CanonEOSRebelT7i_30s_F3.5_f18.0mm_ISO3200.jpg-IMG_1623-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/20200811_220618_CanonEOSRebelT7i_30s_F3.5_f18.0mm_ISO3200.jpg-IMG_1623-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/20200811_220618_CanonEOSRebelT7i_30s_F3.5_f18.0mm_ISO3200.jpg-IMG_1623.jpg 1620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is the only Perseid meteor captured on the DSLR camera, a 20 sec exposures of the southern sky last night, just after setting up no less!  This one is from 22:06 EDT. I&#8217;m finding the sweet spot for the Canon T7i to be ISO3200 for saturation, and shorter exposures for less star trailing (no tracking).<\/p>\n<p>Saturn Jupiter and Sagittarius and the Milky Way were the targets of about 150 images before the lens dewed over around 23:06 EDT<\/p>\n<p>We packed up the camera gear and observed with eyeballs from 00:10-01:00.<\/p>\n<p>Our counts were between 10-20 for that time, over half being Perseids, the remainder sporadics. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the only Perseid meteor captured on the DSLR camera, a 20 sec exposures of the southern sky last night, just after setting up no less! This one is from 22:06 EDT. I&#8217;m finding the sweet spot for the Canon T7i to be ISO3200 for saturation, and shorter exposures for less star trailing (no [&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-9066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9066","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=9066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9068,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9066\/revisions\/9068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}