{"id":246,"date":"2009-09-10T13:34:02","date_gmt":"2009-09-10T13:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/?p=246"},"modified":"2009-09-10T13:35:38","modified_gmt":"2009-09-10T13:35:38","slug":"ic1318-and-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/?p=246","title":{"rendered":"IC1318 and friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know some nights when everything goes right, and all you really remember is the imaging? Yes? Then you also know the soul destroying, life sucking nights where a long list of things that worked just fine last time decide to conspire against you. Last night was the latter option. I wont bore you with details, but I nearly packed up at 11pm and went to bed.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully (almost) all the problems went away after I rebooted my laptop, so I managed to get everything working, left it running for ~6 hours, and still went to bed\u00c2\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Seeing wasnt great, a fair amount of vapour in the air, lit up by the moon, but it was quite still in the sky, breeze free on the ground&#8230; and bl__dy cold! Not &#8220;winter&#8221; cold, but autumn has definitely arrived with the fresh mornings leaving everything covered in dew.<\/p>\n<p>Mount: EQ6 via EQMOD<br \/>\nOTA: Borg 77EDII @ f\/4.3<br \/>\nGuiding: SW ED80 + SX Lodestar + PHD<br \/>\nImaging: Starlight Xpress M25C + MaximDL, 24\u00c3\u2014900s, Astronomik 13nm Ha (101 bias, 101 flats)<br \/>\nStacked: DeepSkyStacker<br \/>\nPost Process: PSCS2<\/p>\n<p>Note: the lower right corner in the mid sized image shows some odd curvature, which I pretty convinced is due to me overtightening the front tube ring on the Borg and pinching the objective. Next time out, I will have to keep an eye on that.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">(Click on image for larger version)<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/images\/ic\/20090909_ic1318_ha_wip1_mid.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"\/images\/ic\/20090909_ic1318_ha_wip1_800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know some nights when everything goes right, and all you really remember is the imaging? Yes? Then you also know the soul destroying, life sucking nights where a long list of things that worked just fine last time decide to conspire against you. Last night was the latter option. I wont bore you with [&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\/246"}],"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=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":251,"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions\/251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}