{"id":9113,"date":"2020-09-07T17:46:16","date_gmt":"2020-09-07T21:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=9113"},"modified":"2020-09-07T17:56:02","modified_gmt":"2020-09-07T21:56:02","slug":"saturn-20200906","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2020\/09\/saturn-20200906\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturn 20200906"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saturn is another favourite target and this again was the first imaging run in weeks, possibly since opposition.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/2020-09-06-0138_8-kk-l-sat_exposure190ms_zwoasi290mc_pipp_lapl4_ap37_drizzle15wk9-1.png-annotated-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/2020-09-06-0138_8-kk-l-sat_exposure190ms_zwoasi290mc_pipp_lapl4_ap37_drizzle15wk9-1.png-annotated-1-299x299.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"299\" height=\"299\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-9115\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/2020-09-06-0138_8-kk-l-sat_exposure190ms_zwoasi290mc_pipp_lapl4_ap37_drizzle15wk9-1.png-annotated-1-299x299.png 299w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/2020-09-06-0138_8-kk-l-sat_exposure190ms_zwoasi290mc_pipp_lapl4_ap37_drizzle15wk9-1.png-annotated-1-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/2020-09-06-0138_8-kk-l-sat_exposure190ms_zwoasi290mc_pipp_lapl4_ap37_drizzle15wk9-1.png-annotated-1.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With very heavy processing the Cassini division just comes out, but there is also a lot of fluffy noise around the rings.  Being only a 30 second exposure with only 159 frames and using only 20% of those, it is no wonder there is so much noise.<\/p>\n<p>And since there were only two imaging runs of Saturn before the mount decided to meridian flip yet again, and I stopped for the night, it is almost not worth posting the animated .gif here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/saturn.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/saturn-299x299.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"299\" height=\"299\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-9117\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/saturn-299x299.gif 299w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/saturn-150x150.gif 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturn is another favourite target and this again was the first imaging run in weeks, possibly since opposition. With very heavy processing the Cassini division just comes out, but there is also a lot of fluffy noise around the rings. Being only a 30 second exposure with only 159 frames and using only 20% 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-9113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9113","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=9113"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9118,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9113\/revisions\/9118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}