{"id":926,"date":"2011-10-23T21:11:16","date_gmt":"2011-10-23T20:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dianajuncher.dk\/astrophoto\/?p=926"},"modified":"2011-10-24T18:19:20","modified_gmt":"2011-10-24T17:19:20","slug":"first-polar-alignment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dianajuncher.dk\/astrophoto\/2011\/10\/first-polar-alignment","title":{"rendered":"First Polar Alignment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has now been almost three months since I bought my motorized equatorial mount, so I guess it is about time I get to know it and its many controls a little better.\u00a0My previous plan to just take it outside and figure out how to align it on the go turned out to be quite\u00a0disastrous. I have since then been reading various tutorials online and studied it closely, testing all the controls, and I now feel much more comfortable around it. So it was with a renewed hope I carried it out in my parents&#8217; backyard tonight.<\/p>\n<p>The initial rough aligning went fine, but I had problems finding Polaris in the finderscope. Just when I was about to give up, an airplane crossed the sky right under the star allowing for an easy identification. I couldn&#8217;t see the scope&#8217;s internal reticle very clearly, so I just centered Polaris in the field of view. I then mounted my camera and pointed it at Cassiopeia. Finally, I turned on the motor and the small gears began to hum quietly.<\/p>\n<p>I must have done something right, for my 3 minute long exposure of the sky showed no sign of the Earth&#8217;s rotation. :)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dianajuncher.dk\/astrophoto\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/cassiopeia.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-928 mouseover\" title=\"Cassiopeia\" src=\"http:\/\/dianajuncher.dk\/astrophoto\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/cassiopeia.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" data-oversrc=\"http:\/\/dianajuncher.dk\/astrophoto\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/cassiopeia2.jpg\" srcset=\"http:\/\/dianajuncher.dk\/astrophoto\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/cassiopeia.jpg 600w, http:\/\/dianajuncher.dk\/astrophoto\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/cassiopeia-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has now been almost three months since I bought my motorized equatorial mount, so I guess it is about time I get to know it and its many controls a little better. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dianajuncher.dk\/astrophoto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dianajuncher.dk\/astrophoto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dianajuncher.dk\/astrophoto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dianajuncher.dk\/astrophoto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dianajuncher.dk\/astrophoto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=926"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/dianajuncher.dk\/astrophoto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":938,"href":"http:\/\/dianajuncher.dk\/astrophoto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926\/revisions\/938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dianajuncher.dk\/astrophoto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dianajuncher.dk\/astrophoto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dianajuncher.dk\/astrophoto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}