{"id":12850,"date":"2014-03-08T01:00:02","date_gmt":"2014-03-08T11:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=12850"},"modified":"2014-03-08T09:40:10","modified_gmt":"2014-03-08T19:40:10","slug":"the-gear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=12850","title":{"rendered":"The Gear"},"content":{"rendered":"

The current astrophoto setup in the driveway… The TeleVue 76mm atop the iOptron ZEQ-25 mount<\/a>. The camera is currently the Canon 6D<\/a>, providing a 5.35° x 3.57° field of view with a 3.52 arcsecond per pixel image scale.<\/p>\n

Atop the main scope an SBIG STi<\/a> provides auto-guiding<\/a>. With a 100mm lens it has a 15 arc-second per pixel image scale. It is mounted with a custom mount<\/a> machined for this setup.<\/p>\n

The setup is intended to provide a high performance astrophoto setup with a minimum of fuss. This is about as far as I can reduce things without giving up performance. It is pretty portable, airline luggable at least. The whole setup fit in two suitcases for the trip to Oregon Star Party<\/a> last summer. <\/p>\n

The only real issue with this setup is the laptop. The big old 17″ HP Pavalion chews a lot of power, requiring an AC outlet to supply. I have my little Asus netbook configured to run the setup, a far more power efficient machine. With the netbook I can setup anywhere and shoot.<\/p>\n

Cable management is a bit of a chore. A lot of separate cables must be routed to connect everything together. Much of the time I keep the setup assembled in the garage for deployment in the driveway. The cable tangle can be tamed with a handful of zip ties and velcro strips this way. A wheeled dolly allows the entire setup to be rolled out of the garage.<\/p>\n

With this setup I have a capable astrophoto rig, capable of producing very nice material for processing. I just need a chance to get out and use it more often.<\/p>\n

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The astrophoto setup in the driveway.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The current astrophoto setup in the driveway… The TeleVue 76mm atop the iOptron ZEQ-25 mount. The camera is currently the Canon 6D, providing a 5.35° x 3.57° field of view with a 3.52 arcsecond per pixel image scale. Atop the main scope an SBIG STi provides auto-guiding. With a 100mm lens it has a 15 … Continue reading “The Gear”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[34],"tags":[136,185,1639,1640,158],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12850"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12850"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12897,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12850\/revisions\/12897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}