{"id":2446,"date":"2025-10-17T15:18:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T03:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/astro-artistry.hashstack.nz\/?p=2446"},"modified":"2025-10-17T15:19:46","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T03:19:46","slug":"setting-up-for-first-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astro-artistry.hashstack.nz\/?p=2446","title":{"rendered":"Setting up for first light !"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So, now i have all the parts i needed, including the focuser, dew heater, mounting bracket for the StellarMate Pro (SMPro) extra cables, and setting the back focus, i think i&#8217;m really to try first light on the C9.25.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Goal tonight will be to get the scope in focus and collimated. There is a lot if high cloud out there, but it shouldn&#8217;t really interfere with what i&#8217;m trying to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Any how, here is the new scope on the new pier mount, really to polar align at about 8:30pm when sky is dark enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"2449\" src=\"https:\/\/astro-artistry.hashstack.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/C-9-25-EQ6-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2449\" srcset=\"https:\/\/astro-artistry.hashstack.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/C-9-25-EQ6-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/astro-artistry.hashstack.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/C-9-25-EQ6-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/astro-artistry.hashstack.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/C-9-25-EQ6-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/astro-artistry.hashstack.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/C-9-25-EQ6-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/astro-artistry.hashstack.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/C-9-25-EQ6-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"2448\" src=\"https:\/\/astro-artistry.hashstack.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/C-9-25-top-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/astro-artistry.hashstack.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/C-9-25-top-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/astro-artistry.hashstack.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/C-9-25-top-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/astro-artistry.hashstack.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/C-9-25-top-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/astro-artistry.hashstack.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/C-9-25-top-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/astro-artistry.hashstack.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/C-9-25-top-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"2447\" src=\"https:\/\/astro-artistry.hashstack.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/C-9-25-EQ6-ZOOM-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2447\" srcset=\"https:\/\/astro-artistry.hashstack.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/C-9-25-EQ6-ZOOM-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/astro-artistry.hashstack.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/C-9-25-EQ6-ZOOM-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/astro-artistry.hashstack.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/C-9-25-EQ6-ZOOM-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/astro-artistry.hashstack.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/C-9-25-EQ6-ZOOM-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/astro-artistry.hashstack.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/C-9-25-EQ6-ZOOM-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, now i have all the parts i needed, including the focuser, dew heater, mounting bracket for the StellarMate Pro (SMPro) extra cables, and setting the back focus, i think i&#8217;m really to try first light on the C9.25. Goal tonight will be to get the scope in focus and collimated. There is a lot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astrogear","category-general-chat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/astro-artistry.hashstack.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/astro-artistry.hashstack.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/astro-artistry.hashstack.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astro-artistry.hashstack.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astro-artistry.hashstack.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/astro-artistry.hashstack.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/astro-artistry.hashstack.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astro-artistry.hashstack.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astro-artistry.hashstack.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}