{"id":130,"date":"2008-12-07T21:27:50","date_gmt":"2008-12-07T21:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/?p=130"},"modified":"2008-12-07T21:27:50","modified_gmt":"2008-12-07T21:27:50","slug":"m42m43ngc1977-rgb-with-the-maknewt-yes-another-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/?p=130","title":{"rendered":"M42\/M43\/NGC1977 RGB with the MakNewt&#8230; yes, another one!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After I night of near disasters, I managed to pull this one out of the hat \ud83d\ude42 To say I am chuffed is an understatement&#8230;.<br \/>\nI was set up by 4pm, two pass polealignmax by 5.10pm&#8230; yeah! all going well! Errr&#8230; then<\/p>\n<p>My cable that supplies power to the QHY8 control box broke (the back of the centre pin came lose)<br \/>\nBodged that with my NS8GPS power cable<br \/>\nThen the fuse on that cable blew (shattered actually!)<br \/>\nFound a replacement from an old project<br \/>\nBlew another fuse in a lighter socket extension cable<br \/>\nmoved everything closer to the mount, turned off non-essential dew strips<\/p>\n<p>imaged all night <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"smiley\" title=\"Smile\" src=\"http:\/\/stargazerslounge.com\/Smileys\/default\/icon_smile.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\":)\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">OTA: Skywatcher 190mm F\/5.3 Maksutov-Newtonian Astrograph<br \/>\nGuiding: Skywatcher ED80 + DSI-C + PHD<br \/>\nImaging: QHY8 + Nebulosity, 42\u00c3\u2014300s, IDAS LPR<br \/>\nStacked: DeepSkyStacker<br \/>\nPost Process: ImagesPlus + PSCS2 + Noel Carboni\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s AstroTools<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">(Click on image for a larger image)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"\/images\/messier\/m42_20081206_large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\/images\/messier\/m42_20081206_800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"523\" height=\"800\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After I night of near disasters, I managed to pull this one out of the hat \ud83d\ude42 To say I am chuffed is an understatement&#8230;. I was set up by 4pm, two pass polealignmax by 5.10pm&#8230; yeah! all going well! Errr&#8230; then My cable that supplies power to the QHY8 control box broke (the back [&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\/130"}],"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=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132,"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions\/132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}