{"id":165,"date":"2009-04-02T11:21:30","date_gmt":"2009-04-02T11:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/?p=165"},"modified":"2009-04-04T16:45:45","modified_gmt":"2009-04-04T16:45:45","slug":"a-crisp-and-clean-leo-trio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/?p=165","title":{"rendered":"A crisp and clean Leo Triplet (reprocessed)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, what another great night&#8230; seeing was great, transparency kind of &#8220;magic murk&#8221; again. With the hour change, I was out, set up and polar aligned well before astro dark started. I discovered that I can now laterally balance the MakNewt on the ADM side by side plate if I have my QHY8 + Nikon lens bundle on top of the ED80 on the other side of the plate&#8230; result! (Might post some wide field images from that later)<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, here is my attempt at the Leo Trio. Never imaged this before, so am very happy with the way this has come out. I may have to reprocess it over the next day or two, as I havent had any sleep at all, and we all know what that can do to your post-processing \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Note: This is now the reprocessed version.<\/p>\n<p>OTA: Skywatcher 190 MakNewt<br \/>\nGuiding: ED80 + SX Lodestar + PHD<br \/>\nImaging: M25C + MaximDL, 21\u00c3\u2014600s, IDAS (100 bias, 100 flats)<br \/>\nStacked: DeepSkyStacker<br \/>\nPost Process: PSCS2<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">(Click on the image for the larger version).<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/images\/misc\/20090401_leo_trio_wip1_large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\/images\/misc\/20090401_leo_trio_wip1_800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, what another great night&#8230; seeing was great, transparency kind of &#8220;magic murk&#8221; again. With the hour change, I was out, set up and polar aligned well before astro dark started. I discovered that I can now laterally balance the MakNewt on the ADM side by side plate if I have my QHY8 + Nikon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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\/165"}],"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=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170,"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions\/170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}