{"id":87,"date":"2009-11-20T15:49:39","date_gmt":"2009-11-20T20:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/?p=87"},"modified":"2013-08-09T15:25:10","modified_gmt":"2013-08-09T19:25:10","slug":"some-test-images","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/?p=87","title":{"rendered":"Some test images."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Had unending rain for a while and then clouds, so haven&#8217;t actually gotten the cameras into the field yet.<\/p>\n<p>The focuser on the Orion 80mm just wasn&#8217;t up to snuff so I replaced it with the William Optic Synta focuser. What a difference. Amazing. Highly recommended:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.williamoptics.com\/wo_shop\/catalog\/product_info.php?cPath=26_31&amp;products_id=356\">http:\/\/www.williamoptics.com\/wo_shop\/catalog\/product_info.php?cPath=26_31&amp;products_id=356<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-88\" title=\"synta\" src=\"http:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/synta.jpg\" alt=\"synta\" width=\"299\" height=\"217\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I also removed the small mounting pad that came on the Orion and added a dovetail bar instead:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scopestuff.com\/ss_eqde.htm\">http:\/\/www.scopestuff.com\/ss_eqde.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-89\" title=\"dove\" src=\"http:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/dove.jpg\" alt=\"dove\" width=\"352\" height=\"126\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/dove.jpg 352w, https:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/dove-300x107.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 352px) 100vw, 352px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I wanted to test\u00a0both cameras\u00a0through the Orion 80mm, so that&#8217;s what I did.<\/p>\n<p>Aimed at a neighbors garage door about 250&#8242; away, and with the Meade DSI II, with 60 exposures I believe:<\/p>\n<p>Full image:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.silvren.com\/misc\/astro\/object0004.jpg\">http:\/\/www.silvren.com\/misc\/astro\/object0004.jpg<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-90\" title=\"Object0004\" src=\"http:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Object0004-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Object0004\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Not sure why it&#8217;s so red, but no matter, I was only concerned with getting focus and testing Envisage 7.05.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a shot thru the 80mm from the Orion SS Pro V2, at the same door, using Images Plus. One exposure at .1 seconds:<\/p>\n<p>Full image:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.silvren.com\/misc\/astro\/Image_Light_0.10Sec__7_RGB.jpg\">http:\/\/www.silvren.com\/misc\/astro\/Image_Light_0.10Sec__7_RGB.jpg<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-91\" title=\"Image_Light_ 0.10Sec__7_RGB-out\" src=\"http:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Image_Light_-0.10Sec__7_RGB-out-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Image_Light_ 0.10Sec__7_RGB-out\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Image_Light_-0.10Sec__7_RGB-out-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Image_Light_-0.10Sec__7_RGB-out-1024x681.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Had unending rain for a while and then clouds, so haven&#8217;t actually gotten the cameras into the field yet. The focuser on the Orion 80mm just wasn&#8217;t up to snuff so I replaced it with the William Optic Synta focuser. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/?p=87\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astrophotography-and-astronomy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Ogee-1p","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":498,"href":"https:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions\/498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.silvren.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}