{"id":3476,"date":"2012-03-29T12:30:44","date_gmt":"2012-03-29T22:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=3476"},"modified":"2012-03-29T17:21:33","modified_gmt":"2012-03-30T03:21:33","slug":"driveway-astrophotography-and-comet-garradd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=3476","title":{"rendered":"Driveway Astrophotography and Comet Garradd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, a night where&#8230; A) The sky is clear. B) The wind is not howling through the palm trees. C) I am not exhausted by working the summit. D) I do not have to get up early the next morning.<\/p>\n<p>A + B + C + D = Astrophotography from the driveway!<\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_3461\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3461\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=3461\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3461\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/C2009P1Garradd20120329-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Comet C\/2009 P1 Garradd\" title=\"Comet C\/2009 P1 Garradd\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-3461\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3461\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Comet C\/2009 P1 Garradd on 29 March 2012 showing both tails, sum of 50 x 1 min exposures CoolSNAP ES and 180mm f\/2.8 lens<\/figcaption><\/figure>Thus, under a very pretty sky, I rolled the photo rig out of the garage and spent some time getting everything back together.  I was not in a hurry, time to let a bright crescent Moon set a little and my primary target rise a little.  The target at the top of the list?  Comet C\/2009 P1 Garradd.<\/p>\n<p>The comet is nicely placed in Ursa Major, transiting late in the evening, available for several hours of exposures.  And expose I did, with the auto-guider locked on the a dim star beside the comet, the shutter open for well over two hours.  I was shooting my Canon 20Da and the AT6RC, a combination that framed the comet nicely. <\/p>\n<p>It will take a while to get the resulting images processed.  In the meantime I did a quick process on a set of images taken with the wide field\/finder CCD camera.  The results of which can be seen at the right.   I also shot a few quick images of the M95 area with the CCD to capture SN2012aw.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, a night where&#8230; A) The sky is clear. B) The wind is not howling through the palm trees. C) I am not exhausted by working the summit. D) I do not have to get up early the next morning. A + B + C + D = Astrophotography from the driveway! Thus, under a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=3476\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Driveway Astrophotography and Comet Garradd&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[34,15],"tags":[136,185,337,338,158],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3476"}],"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=3476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}