{"id":6348,"date":"2024-12-15T19:13:20","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T00:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/?p=6348"},"modified":"2024-12-15T19:13:20","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T00:13:20","slug":"moon-photographs-from-a-meade-lx200gps-12-sct-telescope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/15\/moon-photographs-from-a-meade-lx200gps-12-sct-telescope\/","title":{"rendered":"Moon photographs from a Meade LX200GPS &#8211; 12&#8243; SCT telescope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Moon-enhanced-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Moon-enhanced-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"High resolution image of the moon showing crater details.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Moon-enhanced-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Moon-enhanced-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Moon-enhanced-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Moon-enhanced-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Moon-enhanced-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Moon-enhanced-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Moon-enhanced-2048x2048.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I created this high resolution image of the moon using a Meade LX200 12&#8243; SCT telescope and a Sony A6300 camera. It is a digital composite (panorama) of seven separate images (which you can see here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/seven-moon-images.zip\">seven-moon-images zip file<\/a> ). I also made a pan and zoom video out of this image here:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/_e6I_h_gMFA?si=2s8muScwSvKUA9DZ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Software used: <a href=\"https:\/\/hugin.sourceforge.io\/download\/\">Hugin Panoramic Generator<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openshot.org\/\">OpenShot Video editor<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I created this high resolution image of the moon using a Meade LX200 12&#8243; SCT telescope and a Sony A6300 camera. It is a digital composite (panorama) of seven separate images (which you can see here: seven-moon-images zip file ). &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/15\/moon-photographs-from-a-meade-lx200gps-12-sct-telescope\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6351,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6348\/revisions\/6351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}