{"id":409,"date":"2011-04-04T15:06:45","date_gmt":"2011-04-04T15:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/?p=409"},"modified":"2011-04-04T15:06:45","modified_gmt":"2011-04-04T15:06:45","slug":"markarians-chain-and-friends-from-sgl6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/?p=409","title":{"rendered":"Markarian&#8217;s Chain and friends from SGL6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Managed to pre-script a 4-pane mosaic using CCD Commander on Saturday  morning, and got a chance to grab some images for 2 of those panes on  Saturday night at SGL6. The skies had thin cloudy rolling through, and  it was a bit murky, so I wasnt expecting much from this. Its OK, not great, there is a lot of noise in the full size version, and some worrying hot  pixels that have started appearing in the FITs files.<\/p>\n<p>If only it had stayed wind-and-rain-free for longer, I could have broken out the C11 Edge I had on loan from Ford Prefect&#8230; <img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Frown\" src=\"http:\/\/stargazerslounge.com\/images\/smilies\/frown.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mount: EQ6 via EQMOD<br \/>\nOTA: Borg 60 @ f\/3.8<br \/>\nGuiding: SW ED80 + SX Lodestar + Maxim<br \/>\nImaging: Starlight Xpress M25C + MaximDL, 11 x 600s, Hutech LPS-V2 filter<br \/>\nOrchestrated: CDD Commander<br \/>\nStacked: DeepSkyStacker<br \/>\nPost Process: PSCS2 + PixInsight<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">(Click on image for larger version, or click &gt;&gt;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/images\/misc\/20110402-markarians-chain-mosaic-huge.jpg\">HERE<\/a>&lt;&lt; for the HUGE version!)<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/images\/misc\/20110402-markarians-chain-mosaic-2000.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\/images\/misc\/20110402-markarians-chain-mosaic-1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1008\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Managed to pre-script a 4-pane mosaic using CCD Commander on Saturday morning, and got a chance to grab some images for 2 of those panes on Saturday night at SGL6. The skies had thin cloudy rolling through, and it was a bit murky, so I wasnt expecting much from this. Its OK, not great, there [&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\/409"}],"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=409"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":416,"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions\/416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}