{"id":66,"date":"2008-03-05T15:00:42","date_gmt":"2008-03-05T15:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/?p=66"},"modified":"2008-12-12T12:52:50","modified_gmt":"2008-12-12T12:52:50","slug":"i-can-see-m101-clearly-now-the-snow-has-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/?p=66","title":{"rendered":"I can see M101 clearly now the snow has gone&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Got caught in a mini-blizzard while driving home last night, but the satellite images showed it was due to clear up afterwards&#8230; and it did! Not a great night, a bit milky up there, but no moon and no storm force wind blowing everything around the garden.<\/p>\n<p>M101 and M51 have both started to clear the house at a decent time of the evening (well, actually thats a lie, this was started at 1am after 4 hours of IC405\/IC410 which I cant seem to do anything with because my flats are messed up)<\/p>\n<p>OTA: NS8GPS @ f\/7-ish<br \/>\nGuiding: William Optics ZenithStar 66 SD + DSI-C + PHD<br \/>\nRGB Imaging: QHY8 + MaximDL, 20 x 900s, IDAS Filter<br \/>\nStacked: DeepSkyStacker<br \/>\nPost Process: ImagesPlus + PSCS2 + Noel Carboni\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s AstroTools<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(Click on image for larger version)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/images\/messier\/m101_20080304_large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/images\/messier\/m101_20080304_600.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I`d forgotten quite how slow f\/7+ was to image with&#8230; think I`ll stick to the Hyperstar for the moment, although I do hear M51 calling my name as a &#8220;this years version versus last years&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Got caught in a mini-blizzard while driving home last night, but the satellite images showed it was due to clear up afterwards&#8230; and it did! Not a great night, a bit milky up there, but no moon and no storm force wind blowing everything around the garden. M101 and M51 have both started to clear [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66"}],"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=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137,"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions\/137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}