{"id":2679,"date":"2010-12-21T02:32:03","date_gmt":"2010-12-21T07:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=2679"},"modified":"2010-12-21T02:32:03","modified_gmt":"2010-12-21T07:32:03","slug":"as-close-as-it-gets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2010\/12\/as-close-as-it-gets\/","title":{"rendered":"As close as it gets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Live-eclipse.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Live-eclipse\" width=\"400\" height=\"443\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2680\" \/>Yep, I&#8217;m actually out watching the lunar eclipse progress &#8211; or at least, I was. The conditions are deteriorating and I&#8217;m both too cold and too tired to stay with it. This is as close as I&#8217;m likely to get to live-blogging, by the way. I know that&#8217;s disappointing my legions of followers who have been waiting for an update.<\/p>\n<p>In my area, we&#8217;ve got thin overcast starting to obscure the details and reducing the light from the moon, making the earthglow of the shadowed portion difficult to capture. It&#8217;s cold enough that I can&#8217;t remain outside with the digital camera (even if I was so inclined) because the batteries lose their charge in such conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I&#8217;ll be back shortly with some cold-weather tips and a new addition, my christmas gifts to you. Hopefully, if you&#8217;re following the eclipse you&#8217;re having better luck than I am &#8211; I don&#8217;t get too fired up about planning astronomical observations like eclipses and meteor showers anymore, since the weather cooperates only haphazardly. In the meantime, you can check out <a href=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/Add\/Eclipse-03.gif\" target=\"blank\">this animated gif<\/a> of the last total lunar we had, a few years ago. You&#8217;ll notice some exposure variations as we tried to stay on top of the changing light levels, capturing either the shadowed or sunlit side. That was a much better night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yep, I&#8217;m actually out watching the lunar eclipse progress &#8211; or at least, I was. The conditions are deteriorating and I&#8217;m both too cold and too tired to stay with it. This is as close as I&#8217;m likely to get to live-blogging, by the way. I know that&#8217;s disappointing my legions of followers who have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,45,4,3],"tags":[386],"class_list":["post-2679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-frustrations","category-nature","category-photo","tag-lunar-eclipse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}