{"id":9079,"date":"2020-08-17T08:35:21","date_gmt":"2020-08-17T12:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=9079"},"modified":"2020-08-17T08:35:21","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T12:35:21","slug":"jupiter-saturn-2020-aug-13-utc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2020\/08\/jupiter-saturn-2020-aug-13-utc\/","title":{"rendered":"Jupiter Saturn 2020 Aug 13 UTC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/2020-08-13-0151_4-kk-L-Jup_Exposure100ms_ZWOASI290MC_pipp_lapl4_ap26_Drizzle15wk9.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/2020-08-13-0151_4-kk-L-Jup_Exposure100ms_ZWOASI290MC_pipp_lapl4_ap26_Drizzle15wk9-299x299.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"299\" height=\"299\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-9080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/2020-08-13-0151_4-kk-L-Jup_Exposure100ms_ZWOASI290MC_pipp_lapl4_ap26_Drizzle15wk9-299x299.png 299w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/2020-08-13-0151_4-kk-L-Jup_Exposure100ms_ZWOASI290MC_pipp_lapl4_ap26_Drizzle15wk9-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/2020-08-13-0151_4-kk-L-Jup_Exposure100ms_ZWOASI290MC_pipp_lapl4_ap26_Drizzle15wk9-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/2020-08-13-0151_4-kk-L-Jup_Exposure100ms_ZWOASI290MC_pipp_lapl4_ap26_Drizzle15wk9.png 816w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/2020-08-13-0224_3-kk-L-Sat_Exposure370ms_ZWOASI290MC_pipp_lapl4_ap48_Drizzle15wk9.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/2020-08-13-0224_3-kk-L-Sat_Exposure370ms_ZWOASI290MC_pipp_lapl4_ap48_Drizzle15wk9-299x299.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"299\" height=\"299\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-9081\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/2020-08-13-0224_3-kk-L-Sat_Exposure370ms_ZWOASI290MC_pipp_lapl4_ap48_Drizzle15wk9-299x299.png 299w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/2020-08-13-0224_3-kk-L-Sat_Exposure370ms_ZWOASI290MC_pipp_lapl4_ap48_Drizzle15wk9-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/2020-08-13-0224_3-kk-L-Sat_Exposure370ms_ZWOASI290MC_pipp_lapl4_ap48_Drizzle15wk9.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Another night of developing imaging workflow for the Meade 102mm SC.  Tonight was with a x2 barlow, taking it from FL=1000mm to 2000mm.<\/p>\n<p>This small Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope has only a small coarse focus knob to move the primary mirror in and out.<\/p>\n<p>That combined with a x2 barlow, cut down the exposure times by x4, meaning every time you touch the focus knob, everything shakes and blurs and does not settle down for a few seconds.<\/p>\n<p>So, focus was not the best.  After last nights RASCKC weekly chat, I expect everyone to be out making Hartmann masks today&#8230; I know I did \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>This is the last or 2nd last image of the night, before I switched over to Saturn.<\/p>\n<p>Jupiter was 21 deg alt, with a diameter of 46 arcsec.  The Great Red Spot was appearing&#8230; I did not see that at all in the raw imaging.  North is up.<\/p>\n<p>I hope tonight will see a noticeable improvement in the initial focus&#8230; that helps all the way down the processing\/ workflow  chain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another night of developing imaging workflow for the Meade 102mm SC. Tonight was with a x2 barlow, taking it from FL=1000mm to 2000mm. This small Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope has only a small coarse focus knob to move the primary mirror in and out. That combined with a x2 barlow, cut down the exposure times by x4, [&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-9079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9079","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=9079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9082,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9079\/revisions\/9082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}