{"id":7015,"date":"2016-07-14T19:55:04","date_gmt":"2016-07-15T02:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2016\/07\/14\/telescope-adapter-kit\/"},"modified":"2016-07-14T20:30:33","modified_gmt":"2016-07-15T03:30:33","slug":"telescope-adapter-kit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2016\/07\/14\/telescope-adapter-kit\/","title":{"rendered":"Telescope Adapter Kit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/adapter-setup.jpg' title='Telescope Adapter'><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/adapter-setup.jpg' alt='Telescope Adapter' width='550' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The kit for adapting the Canon camera to the Meade telescope arrived in the mail today. I tried it out and found that it basically works but I still have some issues on stability because the moment arm of the camera is large compared to just an eyepiece. I experimented with objects across the hollow from our house, including the neighbors electric meter, just to get a feel for what I am up against. I am yet to be satisfied with the first attempts, but I&#8217;m sure it will get better.<\/p>\n<p>We won&#8217;t be doing any experimenting tonight, but we will go out and see the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceweather.com\/images2016\/14jul16\/skymap.png?PHPSESSID=v6u9abhkdo2f4anl3s0h7fma75\">celestial triangle<\/a> of the gibbous moon, Mars and Saturn. We plan to continue experimenting next week since our plans don&#8217;t include astrophotography until then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The kit for adapting the Canon camera to the Meade telescope arrived in the mail today. I tried it out and found that it basically works&#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":[70,32,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona","category-astronomy","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7015","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=7015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}