{"id":46,"date":"2007-11-12T17:09:19","date_gmt":"2007-11-12T17:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/?p=46"},"modified":"2008-01-24T14:08:02","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T14:08:02","slug":"m78-and-ngc2024-flame-nebula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/?p=46","title":{"rendered":"M78 and NGC2024 Flame Nebula"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bl__dy freezing, but clear all night. So clear in fact that I left the kit outside imaging for 4 hours while I went to get some sleep, so i`m not as sleep deprived as usual today.<\/p>\n<p>First up,<\/p>\n<ul><strong>M78<\/strong><\/ul>\n<p>OTA: Celestron NexStar 8 GPS @ f\/7.(something)<br \/>\nCamera: QHY8 OSC Guiding: William Optics ZenithStar 66 SD + DSI-C + PHD<br \/>\nImaging: MaximDL\/CCD, 16 x 900s, CLS Filter<br \/>\nProcessing: DeepSkyStacker, ImagesPlus, Photoshop CS2 + Noel Carboni&#8217;s Astro Tools<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/images\/messier\/m78_20071111.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Followed by<\/p>\n<ul><strong>NGC2024, the flame nebula<\/strong><\/ul>\n<p>OTA: Celestron NexStar 8 GPS @ f\/7.(something)<br \/>\nCamera: QHY8 OSC<br \/>\nGuiding: William Optics ZenithStar 66 SD + DSI-C + PHD<br \/>\nImaging: MaximDL\/CCD, 7 x 600s (the sky started turning blue), CLS Filter<br \/>\nProcessing: DeepSkyStacker, ImagesPlus, Photoshop CS2 + Noel Carboni&#8217;s Astro Tools<\/p>\n<ul>Note: The image is somewhat ruined by the reflection doughnut at the lower right, and a fainter one top left<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/images\/ngc\/ngc2024_flame_20071111_large.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I also have an IC1396A that i`m not overly happy with (so I wont post it), and a red blob against a blue sky thats suppsoed to be Mars&#8230; I think I`ll stick to Deep Sky stuff for now \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bl__dy freezing, but clear all night. So clear in fact that I left the kit outside imaging for 4 hours while I went to get some sleep, so i`m not as sleep deprived as usual today. First up, M78 OTA: Celestron NexStar 8 GPS @ f\/7.(something) Camera: QHY8 OSC Guiding: William Optics ZenithStar 66 SD [&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\/46"}],"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=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}