{"id":10167,"date":"2022-11-02T16:54:04","date_gmt":"2022-11-02T20:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=10167"},"modified":"2022-11-02T16:54:11","modified_gmt":"2022-11-02T20:54:11","slug":"more-collimation-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2022\/11\/more-collimation-video\/","title":{"rendered":"More collimation video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Still trying to understand the  collimation status of the Vixen VC200L telescope.<br \/>\nThis is a 30 second video of being outside of the focus point<br \/>\n<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-10167-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/vixenoutsidefocus-2022-11-01-2325-4-Kk-L-Star-Exposure98.2Ms-Zwo-Asi290mc.m4v?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/vixenoutsidefocus-2022-11-01-2325-4-Kk-L-Star-Exposure98.2Ms-Zwo-Asi290mc.m4v\">https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/vixenoutsidefocus-2022-11-01-2325-4-Kk-L-Star-Exposure98.2Ms-Zwo-Asi290mc.m4v<\/a><\/video><\/div><\/p>\n<p>Air currents can be seen but in general the image is pretty symmetrical.<br \/>\nMaybe my imagination shows a little offset.<br \/>\n<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-10167-2\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/vixenoutsidetofocus-2022-11-01-2326-2-Kk-L-Star-Exposure98.2Ms-Zwo-Asi290mc.m4v?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/vixenoutsidetofocus-2022-11-01-2326-2-Kk-L-Star-Exposure98.2Ms-Zwo-Asi290mc.m4v\">https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/vixenoutsidetofocus-2022-11-01-2326-2-Kk-L-Star-Exposure98.2Ms-Zwo-Asi290mc.m4v<\/a><\/video><\/div><br \/>\nThis video is moving from outside of focus to focus itself.<\/p>\n<p><div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-10167-3\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/vixenfocus2022-11-01-2326-7-Kk-L-Star-Exposure60.0Ms-Zwo-Asi290mc.m4v?_=3\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/vixenfocus2022-11-01-2326-7-Kk-L-Star-Exposure60.0Ms-Zwo-Asi290mc.m4v\">https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/vixenfocus2022-11-01-2326-7-Kk-L-Star-Exposure60.0Ms-Zwo-Asi290mc.m4v<\/a><\/video><\/div><br \/>\nThis is at focus with gain and exposure turned down from the outside of focus.<\/p>\n<p><div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-10167-4\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/vixeninsidefocus-2022-11-01-2327-6-Kk-L-Star-Exposure65.0Ms-Zwo-Asi290mc.m4v?_=4\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/vixeninsidefocus-2022-11-01-2327-6-Kk-L-Star-Exposure65.0Ms-Zwo-Asi290mc.m4v\">https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/vixeninsidefocus-2022-11-01-2327-6-Kk-L-Star-Exposure65.0Ms-Zwo-Asi290mc.m4v<\/a><\/video><\/div><br \/>\nand lastly this is the inside of focus view.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Still trying to understand the collimation status of the Vixen VC200L telescope. This is a 30 second video of being outside of the focus point Air currents can be seen but in general the image is pretty symmetrical. Maybe my imagination shows a little offset. This video is moving from outside of focus to focus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10167"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10173,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10167\/revisions\/10173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}