{"id":19728,"date":"2019-07-22T15:37:12","date_gmt":"2019-07-22T14:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beardedgit.com\/?p=19728"},"modified":"2019-07-27T14:35:16","modified_gmt":"2019-07-27T13:35:16","slug":"observing-report-20th-21st-july-2019-fifty-years-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beardedgit.com\/?p=19728","title":{"rendered":"Observing Report 20th-21st July 2019 (Fifty years on)"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"image-fixer-wrapper\"><p style=\"text-align: center;\">At 02:56:15 UTC on July 21st 1969 Armstrong became the first person to step onto the Moon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It seemed fitting to get an image of the Moon at 02:56:15 UTC on July 21st 2019.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/beardedgit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/50yoD-1376x1500.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0pt none; vertical-align: middle;\" src=\"https:\/\/beardedgit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/50yoD-846x922.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It's not the best lunar image I've ever made, but I was trying out a <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/astronomy-imaging-camera.com\/product\/asi174mc\" target=\"_blank\">recently-acquired second-hand camera<\/a> with a <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lenovo.com\/us\/en\/desktops\/thinkcentre\/m-series-towers\/m92p-sff\/\" target=\"_blank\">recently-acquired second-hand PC<\/a> and a <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/uk.crucial.com\/gbr\/en\/ct250mx500ssd1\" target=\"_blank\">recently-acquired new SSD<\/a>. Being able to record full-frame (1936 x 1216 px) raw .avi files at 160 FPS with no skipped frames and no write-lag is a real improvement which should be useful for capturing <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/transit-finder.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">ISS Transits<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0pt none; vertical-align: middle;\" src=\"https:\/\/beardedgit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/transits.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 02:56:15 UTC on July 21st 1969 Armstrong became the first person to step onto the Moon. It seemed fitting to get an image of the Moon at 02:56:15 UTC on July 21st 2019. &nbsp; &nbsp; It's not the best lunar image I've ever made, but I was trying out a recently-acquired second-hand camera with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19727,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,90],"tags":[1225,251],"class_list":["post-19728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-astrostuff","category-observing-reports","tag-coloured-moon","tag-moon"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/beardedgit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/50yoD.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beardedgit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beardedgit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beardedgit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beardedgit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beardedgit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/beardedgit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beardedgit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beardedgit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beardedgit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beardedgit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}