{"id":85,"date":"2008-07-16T11:32:33","date_gmt":"2008-07-16T11:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/?p=85"},"modified":"2008-07-16T11:33:49","modified_gmt":"2008-07-16T11:33:49","slug":"ngc7293-ha-helix-nebula-gras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/?p=85","title":{"rendered":"NGC7293 Ha (Helix Nebula) &#8211; GRAS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The seeing and transparency were fantastic last night&#8230;. in Australia &lt;sigh&gt;. I gave in and spent some more money on my <span style=\"color: #00ff00;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.global-rent-a-scope.com\/\">Global Rent-a-Scope<\/a><\/span> account to use the scopes in Oz to grab some new subs.<\/p>\n<p>NGC7293 is an object that is JUST too low from the UK to be a valid target, but was nearly at the Zenith from Australia.<\/p>\n<p>So, here we go:<\/p>\n<p>OTA: RCOS 10&#8243; f\/6<br \/>\nImaging: SBIG ST-10XME, 10 x 600secs, flats and darks applied.<\/p>\n<p>Notes: This is the first image I have processed using the techniques I have learnt over the last few days from Ron Wodawski&#8217;s Zone System book, which is well worth a read if you can get your hands on it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">(Click on image for larger version)<a href=\"\/images\/ngc\/ngc7293_ha_20080716_gras015_large.jpg\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/ngc\/ngc7293_ha_20080716_gras015_small.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The seeing and transparency were fantastic last night&#8230;. in Australia &lt;sigh&gt;. I gave in and spent some more money on my Global Rent-a-Scope account to use the scopes in Oz to grab some new subs. NGC7293 is an object that is JUST too low from the UK to be a valid target, but was nearly [&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\/85"}],"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=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}