{"id":493,"date":"2015-02-14T20:55:06","date_gmt":"2015-02-14T20:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starrydave.com\/?p=493"},"modified":"2015-02-14T20:56:01","modified_gmt":"2015-02-14T20:56:01","slug":"alt-az-orion-nebula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/starrydave.com\/?p=493","title":{"rendered":"Alt-Az Orion Nebula"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got a book on astrophotography for xmas and one of the things it said was that you can&#8217;t do deep sky imaging with an alt-az mount. I thought I would try it out and left my NexStar 4SE tracking M42 un-guided while I watched the football. My Canon 1100D recorded around 50x good 30sec exposures which were stacked in DeepSky Stacker and processed in StarTools and Krita to give the result below.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_496\" style=\"width: 705px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/starrydave.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/m42-manual-20150213.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-496\" class=\"size-large wp-image-496\" src=\"http:\/\/starrydave.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/m42-manual-20150213-1024x660.jpeg\" alt=\"Click for full size image\" width=\"695\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"http:\/\/starrydave.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/m42-manual-20150213-1024x660.jpeg 1024w, http:\/\/starrydave.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/m42-manual-20150213-300x193.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/starrydave.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/m42-manual-20150213.jpeg 1319w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 695px) 100vw, 695px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-496\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click for full size image<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got a book on astrophotography for xmas and one of the things it said was that you can&#8217;t do deep sky imaging with an alt-az mount. I thought I would try it out and left my NexStar 4SE tracking M42 un-guided while I watched the football. My Canon 1100D recorded around 50x good 30sec <a href='http:\/\/starrydave.com\/?p=493' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deep-sky","category-9-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/starrydave.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/starrydave.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/starrydave.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/starrydave.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/starrydave.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=493"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/starrydave.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":499,"href":"http:\/\/starrydave.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions\/499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/starrydave.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/starrydave.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/starrydave.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}