{"id":7,"date":"2007-03-04T08:43:51","date_gmt":"2007-03-04T15:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/?p=7"},"modified":"2008-01-24T14:23:32","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T14:23:32","slug":"lunar-eclipse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/?p=7","title":{"rendered":"Lunar Eclipse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the weather playing up all day, the sky cleared to an inky black and transparent view, just perfect for the Lunar eclipse. I set up in my back garden and awaited the event<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/Dscf0262.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Despite the Lunar eclipse looking great by eye, I still hadnt quite got to grips with the scope, mostly because the ETX90is f\/13 and I also did not have a focal reducer,so trying to find the moon when its dark against a dark sky meant that&#8230;err&#8230; I lost it :). So, I just sat there and watched the whole event. It was glorious, the moon turned more and more coppery red, with a whiteish area.<\/p>\n<p>I did get some images before and after the event. All images taken with ETX90EC+, Meade LPI, post processed in Registax v4<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/moon-combo-27.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/moon-combo-31.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/moon-combo-38.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/moon002.png\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the weather playing up all day, the sky cleared to an inky black and transparent view, just perfect for the Lunar eclipse. I set up in my back garden and awaited the event Despite the Lunar eclipse looking great by eye, I still hadnt quite got to grips with the scope, mostly because the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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\/7"}],"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=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}