{"id":125,"date":"2008-11-26T14:01:55","date_gmt":"2008-11-26T14:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/?p=125"},"modified":"2008-11-26T14:02:59","modified_gmt":"2008-11-26T14:02:59","slug":"20-desperate-minutes-on-m42-w-maknewt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/?p=125","title":{"rendered":"20 desperate minutes on M42 (w\/ MakNewt)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After finishing my evening meal in a rush, wiping the sleet off the MakNewt sat outside under a cover, one of the most hurried set ups ever (never a good thing!), working my way round house guests with large heavy kit, fighting the cold, the blustery wind, my laptop crashing&#8230; twice!, PHD locking up, my DSI guide camera deciding to play hide and seek with the USB controller, I`m just glad I manged to get something to show for it. Consider this a false start, a not even a work in progress&#8230;.  consider it lucky to get this before the clouds rolled in to finish off a most miserable evening.<\/p>\n<p>Minimal detail because it doesnt deserve anything else<\/p>\n<p>Imaging: QHY8 + IDAS 4 x 300s, no flats\/dark\/bias, minimal post processing<br \/>\nGuiding: PHD + DSI-C + ED80<br \/>\nOTA: Skywatcher 190 MakNewt<\/p>\n<p>Yes, this really is only 20 minutes!!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\/images\/messier\/m42_20081121_small.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After finishing my evening meal in a rush, wiping the sleet off the MakNewt sat outside under a cover, one of the most hurried set ups ever (never a good thing!), working my way round house guests with large heavy kit, fighting the cold, the blustery wind, my laptop crashing&#8230; twice!, PHD locking up, my [&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\/125"}],"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=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129,"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions\/129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}