{"id":253,"date":"2009-04-09T22:17:52","date_gmt":"2009-04-09T12:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/?p=253"},"modified":"2009-12-18T14:17:29","modified_gmt":"2009-12-18T04:17:29","slug":"star-shots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/2009\/04\/star-shots\/","title":{"rendered":"Star shots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been raining the last couple weeks, so I haven&#8217;t had much of a chance to do night time photography. I&#8217;ve been hankering to do some astronomical shots, but only just got around to doing them tonight.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/photos\/v\/nightsky\/Stars+and+tree.jpg.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Stars and tree\" src=\"http:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/photos\/d\/1645-2\/Stars+and+tree.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/photos\/v\/nightsky\/DSC_0208.jpg.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/photos\/d\/1649-2\/DSC_0208.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/photos\/v\/nightsky\/DSC_0209.jpg.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/photos\/d\/1652-2\/DSC_0209.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/photos\/v\/nightsky\/Southern+Cross.jpg.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/photos\/d\/1655-2\/Southern+Cross.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:left\">All of those were taken on my Nikon D60 at f\/8, ISO 100 with a 30 second exposure. I&#8217;ve touched them up a little bit, but was very happy with the low level of noise and clarity of the picture.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, 30 seconds is the longest exposure the D60 will do without a remote, which is a shame because I really wanted to try my hand at star trails. Other than driving sales of peripherals, I&#8217;m not sure why Nikon decided not to let users set an exposure time in the menu system.<\/p>\n<p>I think I may have to investigate the price of that remote, as well as an AC adaptor.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been raining the last couple weeks, so I haven&#8217;t had much of a chance to do night time photography. I&#8217;ve been hankering to do some astronomical shots, but only just got around to doing them tonight. All of those were taken on my Nikon D60 at f\/8, ISO 100 with a 30 second exposure. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[131],"tags":[233,604,234],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p149Qe-45","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":471,"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions\/471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}