{"id":38,"date":"2007-09-06T12:42:52","date_gmt":"2007-09-06T12:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/?p=38"},"modified":"2008-01-24T14:12:24","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T14:12:24","slug":"ngc6888-crescent-nebula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/?p=38","title":{"rendered":"NGC6888, Crescent Nebula"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First DSO light for the QHY8, after a clear spell appeared over the house last night and stayed until at least 3.30am (which is when I decided I really needed to get some sleep!)<\/p>\n<p>OK, so a few problems with this image: The colour balance is off, the stars are a bit &#8220;blobby&#8221; (due to the 10 minute exposures I think), and I am unable to remove the light pollution and\/or radial gradient from the centre of this nebula with destroying the finer detail in the core&#8230; but i`m happy with it as a first attempt.<\/p>\n<p>NS8GPS @ f\/6.3, 6 x 600secs, PHD guided, no filters<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/ngc\/ngc6888_20070805_01.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First DSO light for the QHY8, after a clear spell appeared over the house last night and stayed until at least 3.30am (which is when I decided I really needed to get some sleep!) OK, so a few problems with this image: The colour balance is off, the stars are a bit &#8220;blobby&#8221; (due to [&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\/38"}],"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=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}