{"id":76,"date":"2008-05-19T10:01:48","date_gmt":"2008-05-19T10:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/?p=76"},"modified":"2008-05-19T10:18:24","modified_gmt":"2008-05-19T10:18:24","slug":"m16-ha-taken-via-gras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/?p=76","title":{"rendered":"M16 Ha taken via GRAS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This image was taken over the weekend while I was down in Selsey, working on Sir Patrick Moore&#8217;s Observatory\/Roll-Off-Roof shed project.<\/p>\n<p>10 x 600s, Ha Filter, TAK TOA-150, SBIG ST-10XME<\/p>\n<p>(Click on image for larger version)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"\/images\/messier\/m16_ha_20080518_GRAS003_large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\/images\/messier\/m16_ha_20080518_GRAS003_small.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was quite difficult to get this image&#8230; it was daylight in Selsey, and I was stuffing myself with a lush bacon and fried bread breakfast at the time \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\nOK, so I rented some scope time from <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.global-rent-a-scope.com\/\">Global Rent-A-Scope<\/a><\/strong> (GRAS) last week, and finally got to use it on Sunday morning.  GRAS is all web based, so I logged in, chose the rig I wanted to use (GRAS003, located in New Mexico), chose the target, the filter, the number and length of the subs, and set it going. After the imaging run had completed, I downloaded my FITs light files, and the pre-created darks\/bias\/flats, and then stacked and post processed. Yes, it really was that easy.<\/p>\n<p>My own thoughts on this:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Did I actually learn anything or progress my own experience by using GRAS?<\/strong> No<\/p>\n<p><strong>Will I be using it again?<\/strong> Yes, definitely!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Under what circumstances would I use it again?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Southern Hemisphere Targets<\/li>\n<li>If its been cloudy for weeks and weeks and I`m getting stir crazy!<\/li>\n<li>UK summer meaning longer days and short (or non-existant) dark nights<\/li>\n<li>Target\/Mosaic investigation for future imaging runs of my own at home (mostly stuff in the East that I am unable to see for several months yet, due to the house blocking the sky almost up to the Zenith)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I am also curious to see what <a href=\"LightBuckets.com\">LightBuckets.com<\/a> come up with when that goes live very shortly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This image was taken over the weekend while I was down in Selsey, working on Sir Patrick Moore&#8217;s Observatory\/Roll-Off-Roof shed project. 10 x 600s, Ha Filter, TAK TOA-150, SBIG ST-10XME (Click on image for larger version) It was quite difficult to get this image&#8230; it was daylight in Selsey, and I was stuffing myself with [&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\/76"}],"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=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}