{"id":119,"date":"2008-11-08T15:25:05","date_gmt":"2008-11-08T15:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/?p=119"},"modified":"2008-11-08T15:25:05","modified_gmt":"2008-11-08T15:25:05","slug":"ngc281-ha-with-the-skywatcher-190mm-f53-maksutov-newtonian-astrograph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/?p=119","title":{"rendered":"NGC281 Ha with the Skywatcher 190mm F\/5.3 Maksutov-Newtonian Astrograph"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, after what seems like an incredibly long &#8220;new kit&#8221; induced period of clouds, the skies cleared last night. Seeing was OK, transparency was borderline rubbish, and the moon just made things worse<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\/images\/flo\/flo-swmn-06-onmount.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"533\" height=\"800\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But&#8230; there were stars, and plenty of them. I was hoping the skies would stay clear all night so I could go for an RGB target, but alas the clouds rolled in at about 2.15am. The image is a bit noisey due to the transparency and the moon glow, but I`m happy with this as a first light with the Mak-Newt<\/p>\n<p>After running PoleAlignMax to get a really good alignment, here is the result:<\/p>\n<p>OTA: Skywatcher 190mm F\/5.3 Maksutov-Newtonian Astrograph<br \/>\nGuiding: Skywatcher ED80 + DSI-C + PHD<br \/>\nImaging: QHY8 + MaximDL, 20\u00c3\u2014600s, Astronomik 13nm Ha<br \/>\nStacked: DeepSkyStacker<br \/>\nPost Process: ImagesPlus + PSCS2 + Noel Carboni\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s AstroTools<\/p>\n<p>(Click on image for larger version)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"\/images\/ngc\/ngc281_ha_20081107_large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\/images\/ngc\/ngc281_ha_20081107_800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"799\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, after what seems like an incredibly long &#8220;new kit&#8221; induced period of clouds, the skies cleared last night. Seeing was OK, transparency was borderline rubbish, and the moon just made things worse But&#8230; there were stars, and plenty of them. I was hoping the skies would stay clear all night so I could go [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119"}],"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=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121,"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions\/121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}