{"id":91,"date":"2013-03-15T14:59:51","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T18:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lee-toma.com\/?p=91"},"modified":"2013-03-15T15:31:41","modified_gmt":"2013-03-15T19:31:41","slug":"comet-pan-starrs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lee-toma.com\/?p=91","title":{"rendered":"Comet Pan-Starrs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday evening, I went on a night hike up Blue Hill to see if I could view comet Pan-Starrs. My Saturday hike there had proven fruitless, but this time around I was armed with more information.<\/p>\n<p>Even so, I wasn&#8217;t able to actually <em>see<\/em> the comet; I had to locate it with the camera, which has the advantage of being able to take long exposures.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a couple photos from that evening:<\/p>\n<p>Comet Pan-Starrs above Westwood, Massachusetts:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" alt=\"20130315-145944.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/lee-toma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/20130315-145944.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And half an hour later, the waxing moon setting above Westwood:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lee-toma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/20130315-145958.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" alt=\"20130315-145958.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/lee-toma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/20130315-145958.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday evening, I went on a night hike up Blue Hill to see if I could view comet Pan-Starrs. My Saturday hike there had proven fruitless, but this time around I was armed with more information. Even so, I wasn&#8217;t able to actually see the comet; I had to locate it with the camera, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[17,16,13,20,19,14,18],"class_list":["post-91","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pics","category-scitech","tag-astronomy","tag-blue-hills","tag-comet","tag-moon","tag-night-hike","tag-pan-starrs","tag-sky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lee-toma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lee-toma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lee-toma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lee-toma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lee-toma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/lee-toma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117,"href":"https:\/\/lee-toma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions\/117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lee-toma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lee-toma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lee-toma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}