{"id":7669,"date":"2017-07-04T09:57:29","date_gmt":"2017-07-04T13:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=7669"},"modified":"2017-07-04T09:59:23","modified_gmt":"2017-07-04T13:59:23","slug":"testing-the-lens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2017\/07\/testing-the-lens\/","title":{"rendered":"testing the lens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We purchased a canon 75-300mm zoom lens for astronomy purposed, but have not yet had a lot of chance to try it out.<br \/>\nSo in the daylight of the backyard yesterday, we imaged a tiny songbird on its birdhouse.   Focus was exceptional.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/2017-07-03-13-19-57-7219.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/2017-07-03-13-19-57-7219-299x211.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"299\" height=\"211\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7670\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/2017-07-03-13-19-57-7219-299x211.jpg 299w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/2017-07-03-13-19-57-7219-150x106.jpg 150w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/2017-07-03-13-19-57-7219-768x541.jpg 768w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/2017-07-03-13-19-57-7219.jpg 876w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nGood enought focus to actually try and identify this bird.<br \/>\nHaveto remember to check the camera clock as well&#8230; not too important for bird stuff, but much moreso for the partial solar eclipse coming up next month.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/2017-07-03-13-20-01-7220.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/2017-07-03-13-20-01-7220-299x270.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"299\" height=\"270\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/2017-07-03-13-20-01-7220-299x270.jpg 299w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/2017-07-03-13-20-01-7220-150x136.jpg 150w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/2017-07-03-13-20-01-7220.jpg 687w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/2017-07-03-13-20-07-7221.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/2017-07-03-13-20-07-7221-299x237.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"299\" height=\"237\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7673\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/2017-07-03-13-20-07-7221-299x237.jpg 299w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/2017-07-03-13-20-07-7221-150x119.jpg 150w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/2017-07-03-13-20-07-7221.jpg 738w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We purchased a canon 75-300mm zoom lens for astronomy purposed, but have not yet had a lot of chance to try it out. So in the daylight of the backyard yesterday, we imaged a tiny songbird on its birdhouse. Focus was exceptional. Good enought focus to actually try and identify this bird. Haveto remember to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,28,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-life-the-universe-and-everything","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7669","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\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7669"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7675,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7669\/revisions\/7675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}