{"id":27816,"date":"2020-06-16T01:00:02","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T11:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=27816"},"modified":"2020-05-31T19:33:16","modified_gmt":"2020-06-01T05:33:16","slug":"the-veil-in-hydrogen-alpha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=27816","title":{"rendered":"The Veil in Hydrogen Alpha"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To allow a wider field of view requires changing optics. In this case putting away the <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=22254\">TV-76mm<\/a> telescope and mounting a vintage Nikkor 180mm f\/2.8 ED camera lens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kenrockwell.com\/nikon\/180f28.htm\">Nikkor 180mm<\/a> is a <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=15977\">classic lens<\/a>, once a favorite of professional film photographers for news and portrait work.  Now the lens is out of date, not autofocus, or image stabilized, a bit of very good optics left behind by technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, autofocus or image stabilization are useless for astrophotography.  With a <a href=\"https:\/\/fotodioxpro.com\/products\/nikf-eos\">simple adapter<\/a> the lens can be mounted to a modern system and used as a fully manual lens in an application where the excellent optical quality can still be appreciated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=27817\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Veil-Ha-15x60s-15x300s-20200531.jpg\" alt=\"The Veil Nebula in hydrogen alpha\" class=\"wp-image-27817\" srcset=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Veil-Ha-15x60s-15x300s-20200531.jpg 900w, https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Veil-Ha-15x60s-15x300s-20200531-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Veil-Ha-15x60s-15x300s-20200531-600x600.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>The Veil Nebula in hydrogen alpha<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To allow a wider field of view requires changing optics. In this case putting away the TV-76mm telescope and mounting a vintage Nikkor 180mm f\/2.8 ED camera lens. The Nikkor 180mm is a classic lens, once a favorite of professional film photographers for news and portrait work. Now the lens is out of date, not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=27816\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Veil in Hydrogen Alpha&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27817,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[34,260],"tags":[279,566,716,718,1367],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Veil-Ha-15x60s-15x300s-20200531.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27816"}],"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=27816"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27819,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27816\/revisions\/27819"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}