{"id":306,"date":"2010-03-09T15:24:13","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T15:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/?p=306"},"modified":"2010-03-09T15:34:09","modified_gmt":"2010-03-09T15:34:09","slug":"m81m82-the-190-maknewt-finally-gets-some-sky-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/?p=306","title":{"rendered":"M81\/M82, the 190 MakNewt finally gets some sky time!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After sitting in the garage for most of the winter whilst the Borg was getting used all the time, the Skywatcher 190 MakNewt got to point its one near-perfect eye at a dark sky again on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>After grabbing the RGB data for the Rosette early in the evening wit the Borg, I quickly swapped over the imaging side of the ADM side-by-side bar to the MakNewt, rebalanced, realigned, focused, and fired up CCD Commander to center up M81\/M82.<\/p>\n<p>I have forgotten how nice the images are with the MakNewt \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Mount: EQ6 via EQMOD<br \/>\nOTA: Skywatcher 190 MakNewt<br \/>\nGuiding: SW ED80 + SX Lodestar + MaximDL<br \/>\nImaging: Starlight Xpress M25C + MaximDL, 30\u00c3\u2014300s, Hutech IDAS LPR (101 bias, 101 flats)<br \/>\nOrchestrated: CCD Commander<br \/>\nStacked: DeepSkyStacker Post Process: PSCS2 + PixInsight<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">(Click on image for a MUCH larger version)<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/images\/messier\/20100307_m81_m82_large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\/images\/messier\/20100307_m81_m82_800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After sitting in the garage for most of the winter whilst the Borg was getting used all the time, the Skywatcher 190 MakNewt got to point its one near-perfect eye at a dark sky again on Sunday night. After grabbing the RGB data for the Rosette early in the evening wit the Borg, I quickly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306"}],"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=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310,"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions\/310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}