{"id":10,"date":"2007-03-26T13:15:27","date_gmt":"2007-03-26T13:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/?p=10"},"modified":"2008-01-24T14:22:52","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T14:22:52","slug":"nexstar-8-gps-first-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/?p=10","title":{"rendered":"NexStar 8 GPS &#8211; First Light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, so the weather did not do its usual trick of tipping it down with rain, and so I actually got to go out and play with my new toy. Setp was a breeze&#8230; level the tripod, place OTA on tripod, point the OTA downwards slightly, turn it on, select GPS sync, align star #1, align star #2&#8230;. done&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Most of the evening was getting used to the new handset and options, but I did manage to squeeze in some imaging later in the evening.<\/p>\n<p>NS8GPS + Meade LPI<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/20070326-moon001-lpi-mpa.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/20070326-moon003-lpi-mpa.png\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, so the weather did not do its usual trick of tipping it down with rain, and so I actually got to go out and play with my new toy. Setp was a breeze&#8230; level the tripod, place OTA on tripod, point the OTA downwards slightly, turn it on, select GPS sync, align star #1, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}