{"id":8861,"date":"2020-01-20T10:42:24","date_gmt":"2020-01-20T14:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=8861"},"modified":"2020-01-20T10:42:24","modified_gmt":"2020-01-20T14:42:24","slug":"advice-from-down-under","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2020\/01\/advice-from-down-under\/","title":{"rendered":"advice from down under"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5981\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5981\" style=\"width: 299px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/20140927c-1607.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/20140927c-1607-299x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"299\"  class=\"size-medium wp-image-5981\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/20140927c-1607-299x224.jpg 299w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/20140927c-1607-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/20140927c-1607-1023x767.jpg 1023w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/20140927c-1607.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5981\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">60cm Venor dobsonian telescope<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We were wondering through youtube this morning and came across some nice videos of an Australian astronomer Dylan O&#8217;Donnell.<\/p>\n<p>This one was particularly nice:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"20 Tips for Taking Photos of Planets (in 11 minutes)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/k1uBT3lrzgI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We use some of the software he mentions are are almost in complete agreement with his 20 tips.<br \/>\nIn summary the 20 tips are:<\/p>\n<p>1)  Get a Big F(*&#038;^@#$ Telescope<\/p>\n<p>2) Use barlows\/Powermates<\/p>\n<p>3) Wait for Opposition<\/p>\n<p>4) Get High<\/p>\n<p>5) Seeing<\/p>\n<p>6) Firecapture and Autoalign<\/p>\n<p>7) Get Lucky<\/p>\n<p>8) Region of Interest<\/p>\n<p>9) Use a monochrome camera<\/p>\n<p>10) Autorun RGB sequences<\/p>\n<p>11) Good initial levels<\/p>\n<p>12) collimation<\/p>\n<p>13) Focus on a star<\/p>\n<p>14) Drizzle with autostakkert!2<\/p>\n<p>15) Lucky Lucky Imaging<\/p>\n<p>16) Luminance<\/p>\n<p>17) Auto colour balance<\/p>\n<p>18) topaz denoise<\/p>\n<p>19) sharpening<\/p>\n<p>20) advanced: derotation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were wondering through youtube this morning and came across some nice videos of an Australian astronomer Dylan O&#8217;Donnell. This one was particularly nice: We use some of the software he mentions are are almost in complete agreement with his 20 tips. In summary the 20 tips are: 1) Get a Big F(*&#038;^@#$ Telescope 2) [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8861","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=8861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8862,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8861\/revisions\/8862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}