{"id":778,"date":"2019-01-26T14:28:29","date_gmt":"2019-01-26T14:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starrydave.com\/?p=778"},"modified":"2019-01-26T14:37:23","modified_gmt":"2019-01-26T14:37:23","slug":"daves-astrotour-software-first-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/starrydave.com\/?p=778","title":{"rendered":"Dave&#8217;s AstroTour Software &#8211; First Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been working on a new app that will automatically take astro images overnight and below are some early results. All taken with a Canon 1100D and Sigma 70-300mm lens, stacked in <a href=\"http:\/\/deepskystacker.free.fr\/english\/index.html\">Deep Sky Stacker<\/a> and processed in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startools.org\/\">StarTools<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>AstroTour interfaces with <a href=\"http:\/\/openphdguiding.org\/\">PHD2 autoguider<\/a> (including dithering), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.astrogb.com\/astrogb\/All_Sky_Plate_Solver.html\">All Sky Plate Solver<\/a> for accurate targeting and <a href=\"http:\/\/digicamcontrol.com\/\">digiCamControl<\/a> for capture. digiCamControl allows a wide range of Canon and Nikon DSLRs to be controlled as well as some Sony and other cameras.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_775\" style=\"width: 705px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/starrydave.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/m42-20181204.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-775\" class=\"size-large wp-image-775\" src=\"http:\/\/starrydave.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/m42-20181204-1024x725.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"695\" height=\"492\" srcset=\"http:\/\/starrydave.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/m42-20181204-1024x725.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/starrydave.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/m42-20181204-300x212.jpg 300w, http:\/\/starrydave.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/m42-20181204-768x544.jpg 768w, http:\/\/starrydave.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/m42-20181204.jpg 1477w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 695px) 100vw, 695px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-775\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">M42<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_776\" style=\"width: 705px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/starrydave.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/m45-20181218-gimp.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-776\" class=\"size-large wp-image-776\" src=\"http:\/\/starrydave.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/m45-20181218-gimp-1024x782.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"695\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"http:\/\/starrydave.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/m45-20181218-gimp-1024x782.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/starrydave.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/m45-20181218-gimp-300x229.jpg 300w, http:\/\/starrydave.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/m45-20181218-gimp-768x586.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 695px) 100vw, 695px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-776\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">M45<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_774\" style=\"width: 705px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/starrydave.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/m31-20181118.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-774\" class=\"size-large wp-image-774\" src=\"http:\/\/starrydave.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/m31-20181118-1024x697.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"695\" height=\"473\" srcset=\"http:\/\/starrydave.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/m31-20181118-1024x697.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/starrydave.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/m31-20181118-300x204.jpg 300w, http:\/\/starrydave.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/m31-20181118-768x523.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 695px) 100vw, 695px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-774\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">M31<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_777\" style=\"width: 705px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/starrydave.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/m80-20181219-gimp.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-777\" class=\"size-large wp-image-777\" src=\"http:\/\/starrydave.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/m80-20181219-gimp-1024x642.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"695\" height=\"436\" srcset=\"http:\/\/starrydave.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/m80-20181219-gimp-1024x642.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/starrydave.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/m80-20181219-gimp-300x188.jpg 300w, http:\/\/starrydave.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/m80-20181219-gimp-768x481.jpg 768w, http:\/\/starrydave.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/m80-20181219-gimp.jpg 1849w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 695px) 100vw, 695px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-777\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">M80<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been working on a new app that will automatically take astro images overnight and below are some early results. All taken with a Canon 1100D and Sigma 70-300mm lens, stacked in Deep Sky Stacker and processed in StarTools. AstroTour interfaces with PHD2 autoguider (including dithering), All Sky Plate Solver for accurate targeting and <a href='http:\/\/starrydave.com\/?p=778' 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-778","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\/778","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=778"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/starrydave.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":783,"href":"http:\/\/starrydave.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778\/revisions\/783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/starrydave.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/starrydave.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/starrydave.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}