{"id":256,"date":"2016-04-05T12:45:05","date_gmt":"2016-04-05T18:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13thstone.com\/blog\/?p=256"},"modified":"2016-04-05T12:45:05","modified_gmt":"2016-04-05T18:45:05","slug":"the-pinwheel-no-filters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/13thstone.com\/blog\/?p=256","title":{"rendered":"The Pinwheel no filters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><del><\/del>I ran into a lot of issues this weekend trying to get some new (to me) tech working correctly. I am trying to transition from a SynScan hand controller on my equitorial mount to an EQ direct ASCOM interface so I can slew to targets from within TSX. I have the basics working (like COM port access and EQ-MOD control of the mount), but I&#8217;m having trouble with alignment and accurate pointing. I tried feeding 15 star alignment points into the T-Point plugin, which took a couple of<span class=\"text_exposed_show\"> hours, and was unable to resolve accuracy problems. I ended up switching back to the old way to try and salvage some night sky. It was cold and I was tired, so I just imaged Messier 101 (The Pinwheel Galaxy) with no filters. The dwarf galaxy NGC 5474 is also prominent in this grayscale image as well as NGC 5477 and NGC 5457. There&#8217;s nothing like a night out imaging after a long hiatus to remind you the important role proficiency plays in consistent results.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_257\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-257\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a style=\"color: #993300;\" href=\"http:\/\/13thstone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Messier_101.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-257\" src=\"http:\/\/13thstone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Messier_101-300x221.jpg\" alt=\"Messier 101\" width=\"300\" height=\"221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/13thstone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Messier_101-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/13thstone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Messier_101-1024x754.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/13thstone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Messier_101.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-257\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/span> <span style=\"color: #993300;\">Messier 101<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I ran into a lot of issues this weekend trying to get some new (to me) tech working correctly. I am trying to transition from a SynScan hand controller on my equitorial mount to an EQ direct ASCOM interface so I can slew to targets from within TSX. I have the basics working (like COM &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/13thstone.com\/blog\/?p=256\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Pinwheel no filters<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4P0Vj-48","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/13thstone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/13thstone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/13thstone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/13thstone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/13thstone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/13thstone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":258,"href":"https:\/\/13thstone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions\/258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/13thstone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/13thstone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/13thstone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}