{"id":7,"date":"2026-04-22T22:43:55","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T02:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.phillipcook.us\/?page_id=7"},"modified":"2026-04-26T12:06:56","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T16:06:56","slug":"blog","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.phillipcook.us\/?page_id=7","title":{"rendered":"Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__list has-dates wp-block-latest-posts\"><li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.phillipcook.us\/?p=71\">Focus<\/a><time datetime=\"2026-05-07T21:31:32-04:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">May 7, 2026<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">Hardware can only get so much done on its own. I had the sky guider, a camera, and a lens. But I didn&#8217;t know what I was doing.The live view of my camera couldn&#8217;t see the stars. At least, not with the 200mm lens I had. But I could see them with the smaller kit\u2026 <a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.phillipcook.us\/?p=71\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: Focus<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<li><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.phillipcook.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2023-04-03T02.42.30-edited-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"\" \/><\/div><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.phillipcook.us\/?p=41\">The stars move<\/a><time datetime=\"2026-04-26T11:48:13-04:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">April 26, 2026<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">In case you didn\u2019t know, the Earth spins relative to the stars. Which means the stars appear to rise and set just like the sun and moon. A motorized mount can be used to counteract the Earth&#8217;s rotation. Providing stable, always in frame images of whatever you\u2019re trying to capture.<\/div><\/li>\n<li><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.phillipcook.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_20231024_095740-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"\" \/><\/div><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.phillipcook.us\/?p=38\">In the beginning<\/a><time datetime=\"2026-04-23T20:52:13-04:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">April 23, 2026<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">The beginning of my astrophotography journey began most probably when my grandpa Jim gave me his Nikon camera. <\/div><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.phillipcook.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.phillipcook.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.phillipcook.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.phillipcook.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.phillipcook.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.phillipcook.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55,"href":"https:\/\/blog.phillipcook.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions\/55"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.phillipcook.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.phillipcook.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}