{"id":712,"date":"2011-08-23T14:25:32","date_gmt":"2011-08-23T18:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/?p=712"},"modified":"2013-12-30T13:27:09","modified_gmt":"2013-12-30T18:27:09","slug":"sky-meadows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/?p=712","title":{"rendered":"Sky Meadows!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spent the past two nights at Sky Meadows State Park here in VA grabbing some photons with the AT8RC. Simply a beautiful site to say the least. My wife and I got married here in 2007. Here&#8217;s my usual setup with the AT8RC, CGE-Pro mount, and Parsec 8300M CCD camera.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_1111.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-713\" title=\"IMG_1111\" src=\"http:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_1111.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2592\" height=\"1936\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The view south:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_1113.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-714\" title=\"IMG_1113\" src=\"http:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_1113.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2592\" height=\"1936\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The view north:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_1114.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-715\" title=\"IMG_1114\" src=\"http:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_1114.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2592\" height=\"1936\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The old house:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_1115.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-716\" title=\"IMG_1115\" src=\"http:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_1115.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2592\" height=\"1936\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Another shot of my setup:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_1116.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-717\" title=\"IMG_1116\" src=\"http:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_1116.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2592\" height=\"1936\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>AT72ED guidescope and Lodestar guidecam mounted piggyback on the AT8RC. Until I have an observatory this is the best portable setup I&#8217;ve found. Eventually I&#8217;ll be going off-axis with a rotator:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_1118.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-718\" title=\"IMG_1118\" src=\"http:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_1118.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2592\" height=\"1936\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s 320 minutes (5 hours and 20 minutes) of the Bubble Nebula\/NGC7635 from the two nights combined:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Group2-25percentRGB-SDMask-5pass-Delta50-LRGB-DDP-resized.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-728\" title=\"Group2-25percentRGB-SDMask-5pass-Delta50-LRGB-DDP-resized\" src=\"http:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Group2-25percentRGB-SDMask-5pass-Delta50-LRGB-DDP-resized.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1195\" height=\"900\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent the past two nights at Sky Meadows State Park here in VA grabbing some photons with the AT8RC. Simply a beautiful site to say the least. My wife and I got married here in 2007. 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