{"id":18488,"date":"2016-03-25T01:00:54","date_gmt":"2016-03-25T11:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=18488"},"modified":"2016-03-24T23:34:22","modified_gmt":"2016-03-25T09:34:22","slug":"jupiter-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=18488","title":{"rendered":"Jupiter High"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jupiter passed through opposition back on March 7th. Thus the giant planet is high in the sky through much of the night, well placed for observations.<\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_18489\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18489\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=18489\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18489\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Jove20160324-150x150.png\" alt=\"Jove 20160324\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-18489\" srcset=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Jove20160324-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Jove20160324.png 256w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 85vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18489\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jupiter on March 24th from Waikoloa<\/figcaption><\/figure>I was thinking of going to bed, but it was a hot windless evening in Waikoloa, not much point in trying to sleep before it cooled off a bit.  The dead calm conditions made me think&#8230;  What is the seeing like?  A question only an amateur astronomer would ask.<\/p>\n<p>Turns out the seeing was pretty good.  The typical horrible seeing in Waikoloa is 2 to 3 arcseconds or worse, when the trades are blowing it can be quite bad.  I suspect the seeing was 1 arcsecond or better last night, the view of Jupiter in the eyepiece was quite pleasing.  Putting a camera in place of the eyepiece yielded video worth the effort in processing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jupiter passed through opposition back on March 7th. Thus the giant planet is high in the sky through much of the night, well placed for observations. I was thinking of going to bed, but it was a hot windless evening in Waikoloa, not much point in trying to sleep before it cooled off a bit. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=18488\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Jupiter High&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[34,331],"tags":[103,459],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18488"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18488"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18492,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18488\/revisions\/18492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}