{"id":256,"date":"2020-03-16T13:51:05","date_gmt":"2020-03-16T13:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.coochey.net\/?p=256"},"modified":"2020-03-17T10:27:31","modified_gmt":"2020-03-17T10:27:31","slug":"bodes-m81-and-cigar-m82-galaxy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coochey.net\/?p=256","title":{"rendered":"Bode&#8217;s (M81) and Cigar (M82) Galaxy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Seems everyday is fraught with issues, which emphasises the real need to following a set workflow for set up of your rig if you are not lucky enough to have a permanent set up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mistakes this time round included, but probably not limited to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li> Forgetting to attach counter weight to the counterweight bar<\/li><li>Mounting Filter-wheel in the camera train pointing downwards (M81 is pretty much at the zenith for my latitude, and hence the filter-wheel collided with the mount during exposures &#8211; which had to be discaraded).<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s a case of constant learning. I did draft a workflow document, but the weather meant I did most of the set up in the dark. Time to update the document with the lessons learned and remember to actually follow it in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>5 120s L, R, G &amp; B exposures, no darks, bias, or flats used (was annoyed and kicking myself for the problems, so didn&#8217;t bother.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignfull size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1735\" src=\"https:\/\/www.coochey.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Bodes-and-Cigar-2020-03-15.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-257\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seems everyday is fraught with issues, which emphasises the real need to following a set workflow for set up of your rig if you are not lucky enough to have a permanent set up. Mistakes this time round included, but probably not limited to: Forgetting to attach counter weight to the counterweight bar Mounting Filter-wheel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coochey.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coochey.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coochey.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coochey.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coochey.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coochey.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":258,"href":"https:\/\/coochey.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions\/258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coochey.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coochey.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coochey.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}