{"id":312,"date":"2020-04-06T22:08:32","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T22:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.coochey.net\/?p=312"},"modified":"2021-02-11T15:27:12","modified_gmt":"2021-02-11T15:27:12","slug":"faffing-around-trying-to-get-automated-astrophotogrphy-working","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coochey.net\/?p=312","title":{"rendered":"Faffing Around, trying to get automated Astrophotogrphy working"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>OK, so the worst conception you can have about someone into astronomy, is that they sit around, outside, with a thermos flask, looking at sky pictures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The truth is we, astrophotographers, sit indoors, during this time of self-isolation and social-distancing, trying to work out how to get the telescope to work itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is fraught with problems, and a lot of the time, means going outside to check that everything is actually doing what it is supposed to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Quick video, feel free to fast forward, on how that process works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Faffing about setting up a session\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EedX4HZ2X-o?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>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Final picture to follow&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, so the worst conception you can have about someone into astronomy, is that they sit around, outside, with a thermos flask, looking at sky pictures. The truth is we, astrophotographers, sit indoors, during this time of self-isolation and social-distancing, trying to work out how to get the telescope to work itself. This is fraught [&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":[29,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coochey.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312","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=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/coochey.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":562,"href":"https:\/\/coochey.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions\/562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coochey.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coochey.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coochey.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}