{"id":29,"date":"2007-06-28T11:25:18","date_gmt":"2007-06-28T11:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/?p=29"},"modified":"2008-01-24T14:16:08","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T14:16:08","slug":"my-first-autoguided-image-m51","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/?p=29","title":{"rendered":"My first autoguided image &#8211; M51"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wasnt planning on creating anything worthwhile last night, it was planned to just use the OAG and PHD to learn how to get the auto guiding working. I wasnt even looking at the images being created, I was just watching PHD and the guiding application&#8230;. but then I processed the images this morning and thought it might be worth at least showing it.<\/p>\n<p>OTA: Celestron NexStar 8 GPS + Wedge<br \/>\nImages: Canon 350D Unmodded, DSLR Focus, 10 x 3min @ ISO1600, 5 x darks<br \/>\nGuiding: Off Axis Guider, PHD + Meade DSI-C<br \/>\nProcessing: DeepSkyStacker, Photoshop CS<\/p>\n<p>Please note: As I had reinstalled DSLRFocus in the last few days, dumbass here didnt notice that I managed to take the sequence as normal\/small jpegs, and not large\/raw&#8230; doh! So not only are the originals small, they are also all 8 bit data&#8230; double doh!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/messier\/m51-20070627.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>for reference, here is a unprocessed single sub<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/messier\/m51-20070627-single-raw.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I`ll be returning to get more data for M51, with longer subs, and more time&#8230; and large\/raw images!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wasnt planning on creating anything worthwhile last night, it was planned to just use the OAG and PHD to learn how to get the auto guiding working. I wasnt even looking at the images being created, I was just watching PHD and the guiding application&#8230;. but then I processed the images this morning and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29"}],"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=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}