{"id":1287,"date":"2010-12-31T12:11:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-31T01:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2010\/12\/31\/storm-on-saturn-with-radio-waves\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T11:11:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T01:11:19","slug":"storm-on-saturn-with-radio-waves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2010\/12\/31\/storm-on-saturn-with-radio-waves\/","title":{"rendered":"Storm on Saturn (with radio waves)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Saturn.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 317px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Saturn.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5556818058965963826\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">There is a big and very unusual storm on Saturn right now. You can see it in the image above. It was taken by amateur astronomer Jim Phillips using an eight inch telescope. I&#8217;ve been out before dawn for the last two mornings trying to see the storm with my 6 inch Dobsonian reflector telescope. I get very nice views of Saturn and Titan, but I can&#8217;t quite make out the storm. Conditions have not been great, and I&#8217;m not sure the storm was in view when I was looking.<\/p>\n<p>The folks at spaceweather.com note that it is generating some static: <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;\">Instruments on NASA&#8217;s Cassini spacecraft are picking up strong bursts of radio static. Apparently, lightning is being generated in multiple cells across the storm front.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Space weather indeed! <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a big and very unusual storm on Saturn right now. You can see it in the image above. It was taken by amateur astronomer Jim Phillips using an eight inch telescope. I&#8217;ve been out before dawn for the last two mornings trying to see the storm with my 6 inch Dobsonian reflector telescope. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2010\/12\/31\/storm-on-saturn-with-radio-waves\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Storm on Saturn (with radio waves)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,261],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1287","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\/1287","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=1287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1289,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1287\/revisions\/1289"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}