{"id":31,"date":"2007-07-18T09:53:59","date_gmt":"2007-07-18T09:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/?p=31"},"modified":"2008-01-24T14:15:26","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T14:15:26","slug":"m7-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/?p=31","title":{"rendered":"M57 (again)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another M57, another evening of problems (almost all self induced*)&#8230; but it was clear, and the skies were darker than I last remember \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Scope: Celestron NexStar 8 GPS @ f\/10<br \/>\nCamera: Canon 350D (unmodded)<br \/>\nGuiding: OAG + PHD + DSI<br \/>\nImaging: 3 frames (300s @ ISO800), 2 darks (see below*), ImagesPlus Camera control v3 beta, DeepSkyStacker, PSCS + Noel&#8217;s Tools<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/messier\/m57_20070717_2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>*Problems included:- the NS8GPS being powered down for so long that the GPS wouldnt link for 30 minutes and the handset started playing up<br \/>\n&#8211; saving the images as jpg (8bit&#8230; doh!)<br \/>\n&#8211; gently nudging\/kicking the tripod during the last image, hence the slight trailing<br \/>\n&#8211; the Canon batteries dying halfway through my dark taking<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another M57, another evening of problems (almost all self induced*)&#8230; but it was clear, and the skies were darker than I last remember \ud83d\ude42 Scope: Celestron NexStar 8 GPS @ f\/10 Camera: Canon 350D (unmodded) Guiding: OAG + PHD + DSI Imaging: 3 frames (300s @ ISO800), 2 darks (see below*), ImagesPlus Camera control v3 [&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\/31"}],"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=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}