{"id":10206,"date":"2010-12-09T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2010\/12\/09\/saturn-and-rhea\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T04:02:48","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T18:02:48","slug":"saturn-and-rhea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2010\/12\/09\/saturn-and-rhea\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturn and Rhea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Saturn.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 236px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Saturn.png\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5548636042218808898\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">After a long spell of looking almost exclusively at Jupiter and our Moon, I was very pleased to see that Saturn is now visible. It is up in the south-east just before dawn, to the upper right of VERY bright Venus. The Sky and Telescope screen shot is a good representation of what I saw. I was using a 6 inch reflector telescope. I could see Titan very easily, and I could also see Rhea by using the averted vision trick.<\/span><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Rhea.ashx_.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Rhea.ashx_.jpeg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5548638263906453394\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Above is a much better view of Rhea. This one was taken by the Cassini spacecraft last November. Rhea has been in the news recently because scientists have discovered oxygen in its atmosphere: <\/span><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.astronomy.com\/en\/News-Observing\/News\/2010\/11\/Cassini%20reveals%20oxygen%20atmosphere%20of%20Saturn%20moon%20Rhea.aspx\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">http:\/\/www.astronomy.com\/en\/News-Observing\/News\/2010\/11\/Cassini%20reveals%20oxygen%20atmosphere%20of%20Saturn%20moon%20Rhea.aspx<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a long spell of looking almost exclusively at Jupiter and our Moon, I was very pleased to see that Saturn is now visible. It is up in the south-east just before dawn, to the upper right of VERY bright Venus. The Sky and Telescope screen shot is a good representation of what I saw. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2010\/12\/09\/saturn-and-rhea\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Saturn and Rhea&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,261],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-astronomy","category-saturn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10209,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10206\/revisions\/10209"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}