{"id":7012,"date":"2016-07-12T13:23:46","date_gmt":"2016-07-12T20:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2016\/07\/12\/astrophotography-practice\/"},"modified":"2016-07-12T13:23:46","modified_gmt":"2016-07-12T20:23:46","slug":"astrophotography-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2016\/07\/12\/astrophotography-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"Astrophotography Practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/20160711-waxing-gibbous-moon.jpg' title='Waxing Gibbous'><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/20160711-waxing-gibbous-moon.jpg' alt='Waxing Gibbous' width='550' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is only 404 days until the <a href=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2016\/05\/13\/the-great-american-eclipse\/\">Great American Eclipse<\/a> of August 21, 2017. I have started thinking about what sort of equipment we will need to record the events associated with a solar eclipse.<\/p>\n<p>Last night, I took the photo of the moon, seen above, with my Canon SL1 and a 300mm lens. That&#8217;s the bare minimum needed (along with a solar filter) to capture sun images. It did a pretty good image (without the filter) of the waxing gibbous moon last night just before 10PM Arizona time. The settings were: 1\/4000 sec exposure, F-8, ISO 6400 and 300mm focal length.<\/p>\n<p>The image above is satisfactory, but not as good as it could be. So, to facilitate further experimenting with the camera and astrophotography, I ordered a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00ZEJK282\/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&#038;psc=1\">telescope adapter kit<\/a> which offers several good interface options between my DSLR camera and my older <a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/meade-etx90.jpg' title='Meade ETX90'>Meade ETX90<\/a> five inch telescope.<\/p>\n<p>The full moon will be next week and I&#8217;m hoping to have the camera\/adapter\/telescope interface figured out by then. More experimentation to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is only 404 days until the Great American Eclipse of August 21, 2017. I have started thinking about what sort of equipment we will need&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}