{"id":4229,"date":"2014-12-25T11:30:23","date_gmt":"2014-12-25T11:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/?p=4229"},"modified":"2014-12-24T23:56:36","modified_gmt":"2014-12-24T23:56:36","slug":"m42-orion-nebula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/m42-orion-nebula\/","title":{"rendered":"M42 &#8211; Orion Nebula"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/adambowie\/16096452741\" title=\"Orion Nebula - M42 by Adam Bowie, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7518\/16096452741_4870917986_h.jpg\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" alt=\"Orion Nebula - M42\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m rather pleased with this picture of the Orion Nebula. I&#8217;ve never seen it before, sitting within Orion&#8217;s belt, and being basically invisible without an optical aid. <\/p>\n<p>This was taken in my first session with an iOptron Star Tracker &#8211; a mount that sits on a regular photographic tripod to allow you to take photos of stars, tracking them as they move. That said, this is only a six second exposure taken in quite a dark Norfolk site (Yes &#8211; that&#8217;s how I spent my Christmas Eve).<\/p>\n<p>The lens is my Sigma 70-200mm, with this exposure at the full 200mm end at F2.8. My camera is a crop-sensor model, so that makes it the equivalent of a 300mm lens. Here&#8217;s hoping for more clear skies&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m rather pleased with this picture of the Orion Nebula. I&#8217;ve never seen it before, sitting within Orion&#8217;s belt, and being basically invisible without an optical aid. This was taken in my first session with an iOptron Star Tracker &#8211; a mount that sits on a regular photographic tripod to allow you to take photos [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[369],"class_list":["post-4229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","tag-astrophotography"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4230,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4229\/revisions\/4230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}