{"id":234,"date":"2009-07-26T12:43:54","date_gmt":"2009-07-26T12:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/?p=234"},"modified":"2009-07-27T08:52:04","modified_gmt":"2009-07-27T08:52:04","slug":"ic1396-borg-first-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/?p=234","title":{"rendered":"IC1396 (Borg First Light)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Usually it takes weeks and weeks to get a clear sky after new kit arrives, but it was threatening to clear last night so I set up.<\/p>\n<p>The clouds didnt really want to play ball as they were supposed to, so I only really managed to get about an hour of really clear skies, but I was just glad to be outside. Nice to see the Milkyway stretching down to the southern horizon again, and the return of astrodark again.<\/p>\n<p>As much as I would like to have had a full night imaging, I was happy wth getting the Borg out and imaging. Call this a dry run of things to come \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\/images\/misc\/20090725_threeofakind_01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"533\" height=\"800\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Almost zero flex in the system (0.28 pixels per hour or thereabouts). I was also imaging with the WO66 but that was more to find the correct back focus distance for the reducer, so I wasnt expecting much out of that one.<\/p>\n<p>Mount: EQ6 via EQMOD<br \/>\nOTA: Borg 77EDII @ f\/4.3<br \/>\nGuiding: SW ED80 + SX Lodestar + PHD<br \/>\nImaging: M25C + MaximDL, 5\u00c3\u2014600s, Astronomik 13nm Ha (51 bias, 51 flats)<br \/>\nStacked: DeepSkyStacker<br \/>\nPost Process: ImagesPlus + PSCS2<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">(Click on image for larger but slightly noisy version)<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/images\/ic\/20090725_ic1396_wip1_mid.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\/images\/ic\/20090725_ic1396_wip1_800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"532\" height=\"800\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Usually it takes weeks and weeks to get a clear sky after new kit arrives, but it was threatening to clear last night so I set up. The clouds didnt really want to play ball as they were supposed to, so I only really managed to get about an hour of really clear skies, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234"}],"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=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238,"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions\/238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}