{"id":420,"date":"2015-01-15T00:04:54","date_gmt":"2015-01-15T07:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/?p=420"},"modified":"2015-01-15T00:04:54","modified_gmt":"2015-01-15T07:04:54","slug":"comet-lovejoy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/?p=420","title":{"rendered":"Comet Lovejoy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/comet_lovejoy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/comet_lovejoy-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Comet Lovejoy\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-422\" srcset=\"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/comet_lovejoy-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/comet_lovejoy-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/comet_lovejoy-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/comet_lovejoy.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>First clear day this week, so I drove part-way up Flagstaff Mountain to see if the comet was visible. That close to Boulder the sky is still not all that dark, but a quick frame at 70mm in the general direction of Orion and the Pleiades quickly located it. I could <em>just about<\/em> see it with the naked eye once I knew where to look. This is a slight crop from the best frame, shot at 200mm (f\/4, 60s, ISO 1600) using the iOptron Skytracker. Going any deeper led to diminishing returns. There&#8217;s not much by way of a tail to see, but the bright green color is pretty cool! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First clear day this week, so I drove part-way up Flagstaff Mountain to see if the comet was visible. That close to Boulder the sky is still not all that dark, but a quick frame at 70mm in the general &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/?p=420\">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":[14,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astrophotography","category-night"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420","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=420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":423,"href":"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions\/423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}