{"id":349,"date":"2014-10-09T23:58:27","date_gmt":"2014-10-10T05:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/?p=349"},"modified":"2014-10-09T23:58:27","modified_gmt":"2014-10-10T05:58:27","slug":"total-lunar-eclipse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/?p=349","title":{"rendered":"Total lunar eclipse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Total lunar eclipses aren&#8217;t nearly as rare as total Solar eclipses (the Earth is a <em>lot<\/em> larger than the Moon, and casts a much bigger shadow), but they still don&#8217;t come around all that often. After considerable planning &#8211; and angsting over what would be the best location &#8211; I drove up to Brainard Lake in the Indian Peaks wilderness early Wednesday morning. Make that <em>very<\/em> early, as I left home at 2:30am! I didn&#8217;t get quite what I expected, in part because this was my first time shooting an eclipse so I didn&#8217;t know what to expect and in part due to intermittent cloud cover, but I&#8217;m pleased with the end result.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/total_eclipse.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/total_eclipse-1024x640.jpg\" alt=\"Total lunar eclipse Colorado\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/total_eclipse-1024x640.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/total_eclipse-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/total_eclipse-480x300.jpg 480w, https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/total_eclipse.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Total lunar eclipses aren&#8217;t nearly as rare as total Solar eclipses (the Earth is a lot larger than the Moon, and casts a much bigger shadow), but they still don&#8217;t come around all that often. After considerable planning &#8211; and &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/?p=349\">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":[12,4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eclipse","category-locations","category-night"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":351,"href":"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions\/351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}