{"id":99,"date":"2008-09-30T11:27:30","date_gmt":"2008-09-30T11:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/?p=99"},"modified":"2008-10-05T11:42:11","modified_gmt":"2008-10-05T11:42:11","slug":"equinox-star-party-sept-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/?p=99","title":{"rendered":"Equinox Star Party, Sept 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What an unbelievable weekend! A UK weekend in September that had 3 clear nights (4 if you count Sundays slightly milky sky). That is just unheard of. In fact, I had more clear nights in one weekend than the rest of the appalling UK summer. And the fact that it was star party weekend just makes it astonishing.<\/p>\n<p>Just a couple of astro related images to start with, followed by some other pictures.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>M45<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nOTA: NS8GPS @ f\/2 (Hyperstar v3)<br \/>\nGuiding: William Optics ZenithStar 66 SD + DSI-C + PHD<br \/>\nRGB Imaging: QHY8 + MaximDL, 31x300s, IDAS<br \/>\nStacked: DeepSkyStacker<br \/>\nPost Process: ImagesPlus + PSCS2 + Noel Carboni\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s AstroTools<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">(Click on image for larger version)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"\/images\/messier\/m45_20080925_wip2_large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\/images\/messier\/m45_20080925_wip2_800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"708\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>M42\/M43\/NGC1977<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nOTA: NS8GPS @ f\/2 (Hyperstar v3)<br \/>\nGuiding: William Optics ZenithStar 66 SD + DSI-C + PHD<br \/>\nRGB Imaging: QHY8 + MaximDL, 20\u00c3\u201460s + 20x300s, IDAS<br \/>\nStacked: DeepSkyStacker<br \/>\nPost Process: ImagesPlus + PSCS2 + Noel Carboni\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s AstroTools<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">(Click on image for larger version)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"\/images\/messier\/m42_20080925_wip2_mid.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\/images\/messier\/m42_20080925_wip2_800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">And now some other random images from the Kelling Heath Start paty weekend. We were down in the blue field at Kelling, so what you see here is a small part of several hundred pitches, all of them full with astronomers and their kit. And yes, that orange glow in the sky is light pollution \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"\/images\/misc\/20080928_nightscene09.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"\/images\/misc\/20080928_nightscene10.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"\/images\/misc\/20080928_nightscene04.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/ukastronomers.com\/lunator\/image\/8881_normal.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/ukastronomers.com\/MikeP\/image\/8889_normal.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.firstlightoptics.com\/prodimages\/kellingscopesSGL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"944\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And click &gt;&gt; <a href=\"\/images\/misc\/20080928_scopes_squared_huge.jpg\">HERE<\/a> &lt;&lt; for a large panorama image taken from the middle of our small observing field, helped by Tony and his many clones \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What an unbelievable weekend! A UK weekend in September that had 3 clear nights (4 if you count Sundays slightly milky sky). That is just unheard of. In fact, I had more clear nights in one weekend than the rest of the appalling UK summer. And the fact that it was star party weekend just [&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\/99"}],"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=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104,"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions\/104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}