{"id":33436,"date":"2022-12-16T12:27:49","date_gmt":"2022-12-16T17:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=33436"},"modified":"2022-12-16T12:27:49","modified_gmt":"2022-12-16T17:27:49","slug":"living-in-the-past-iix-or-is-it-viii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2022\/12\/living-in-the-past-iix-or-is-it-viii\/","title":{"rendered":"Living in the past IIX (or is it VIII?)"},"content":{"rendered":"

You know, why use four digits when you can use three? I never understood that convention for Roman numerals, but then again, Arabic doesn’t make any sense either – they’re just what we’ve been taught.<\/p>\n

Anyway, another from 2012, and it wouldn’t be hard to figure out the exact date.<\/p>\n

\"2012
There was a lot of media attention regarding the transit of Venus in front of the sun, but I’d made no plans to capture this;<\/strong> it was occurring in late afternoon and I had no solar filter for the camera, and wasn’t about to spend the money on something that I’d use once (well, it would have been twice at least, since I would have put it to work again with the total solar eclipse<\/a> five years later.) But then as the day wore on, I saw the clouds getting thicker and occasionally obscuring the sun just enough<\/em>, and set up and waited for the right conditions. I was shooting at the limits of the camera – minimum aperture and ISO, maximum shutter speed – but it worked, and I captured something<\/a> that I’d missed eight years earlier and wouldn’t be seen again for 105 years, and I’ll probably miss that one too.<\/p>\n

11 days later, Venus was already noticeably different<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You know, why use four digits when you can use three? I never understood that convention for Roman numerals, but then again, Arabic doesn’t make any sense either – they’re just what we’ve been taught. Anyway, another from 2012, and it wouldn’t be hard to figure out the exact date. There was a lot of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,4,3],"tags":[2613,1281,1282],"class_list":["post-33436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-nature","category-photo","tag-natural-filters","tag-solar-photography","tag-transit-of-venus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33436","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=33436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}