{"id":2210,"date":"2011-11-03T09:48:53","date_gmt":"2011-11-03T13:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=2210"},"modified":"2011-11-04T12:28:53","modified_gmt":"2011-11-04T16:28:53","slug":"telescope-mods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2011\/11\/telescope-mods\/","title":{"rendered":"telescope mods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday Nov 2nd saw us install a new dew shield for the LX200 made from camping foamy mattress and duct tape:)  That and a 12vdc 1amp power  supply to run the 12watt heater wrapped around the corrector plate and we were able to image for about 2 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Of course it was warm enough that there probably wasn&#8217;t any dew to speak of!<\/p>\n<p>The air was turbulent and windy enough that we thought the too-large dew shield was acting as a sail and wobbling the scope around, so we took that off as we were imaging the moon.<\/p>\n<p>That did not help&#8230; the images were still showing a lot of distortion  and &#8220;rolling&#8221; during the very short exposures.  <\/p>\n<p>All in all a good observing run.  tracking was excellent but pointing was off (had to move about a degree to the first target, the moon and about a degree for Jupiter later on).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday Nov 2nd saw us install a new dew shield for the LX200 made from camping foamy mattress and duct tape:) That and a 12vdc 1amp power supply to run the 12watt heater wrapped around the corrector plate and we were able to image for about 2 hours. Of course it was warm enough that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210","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=2210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}