{"id":1477,"date":"2020-12-24T22:08:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-25T05:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/?p=1477"},"modified":"2021-01-04T22:18:16","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T05:18:16","slug":"conjunction-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/2020\/12\/24\/conjunction-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Conjunction +\/-1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Lugged the 6&#8243; Dobsonian Mount out each evening to get some shots of Saturn and Jupiter doing their thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>December 21 was the closest approach, but I think my best shot was the evening before:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"448\" height=\"240\" src=\"http:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Conjunction_20201220.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1478\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Conjunction_20201220.jpg 448w, https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Conjunction_20201220-300x161.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><figcaption>December 20th &#8211; ISO 800 F1.8 1\/25 s<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"435\" height=\"240\" src=\"http:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Conjunction_20201221.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1479\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Conjunction_20201221.jpg 435w, https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Conjunction_20201221-300x166.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 435px) 100vw, 435px\" \/><figcaption>December 21st &#8211; ISO 800 F1.8 1\/13 s<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"437\" height=\"240\" src=\"http:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Conjunction_20201222.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Conjunction_20201222.jpg 437w, https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Conjunction_20201222-300x165.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 437px) 100vw, 437px\" \/><figcaption>December 22nd &#8211; ISO 400 F1.8 1\/30 s<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Each time something cosmic happens worthy of time and attention, I tell myself I will invest in some better equipment, but it doesn&#8217;t happen. This time, I tried to get a range of ISO settings and shutter speeds, and had my Sony RX100 mounted on a tripod, pointing down the eyepiece. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"384\" height=\"254\" src=\"http:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1481\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/image.png 384w, https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/image-300x198.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px\" \/><figcaption>Magic<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lugged the 6&#8243; Dobsonian Mount out each evening to get some shots of Saturn and Jupiter doing their thing. December 21 was the closest approach, but I think my best shot was the evening before: Each time something cosmic happens worthy of time and attention, I tell myself I will invest in some better equipment, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celestials","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}