{"id":38086,"date":"2025-01-03T06:00:20","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T11:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=38086"},"modified":"2025-01-03T02:14:35","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T07:14:35","slug":"estate-find-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2025\/01\/estate-find-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Estate Find I"},"content":{"rendered":"

And so begins a new weekly topic, which will consist entirely of images shot right here at Walkabout Estates Plus, since it should<\/em> be able to provide a decent array of subjects without too many repeats – that’s the goal, anyway.<\/p>\n

Now, after deciding on this topic late Wednesday night, I went after a couple of subjects on Thursday but wasn’t successful in capturing anything compelling, and I thought I was going to have to start off with a Carolina anole. But then I went out last night\/early this morning after the Quantarid<\/del> Quadrantid<\/em> meteors, the first time shooting the night sky on the property, which was almost entirely out of the question at the old place;<\/strong> nestled on the edge of two cities, with a streetlight right at the end of the driveway, and even out back there was only a narrow patch of sky visible through the trees. This place is a bit better.<\/p>\n

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I think all of those are cypress trees, but you’re looking at Mars in the center there, sitting within Cancer while Gemini is above it. A few minutes before this was taken, while the camera was exposing a section of sky off to the right, a Quantarids<\/del> Quadrantids meteor cut entirely across this field of view, though probably too dim to have registered very well;<\/strong> it was dying out just as it would have been entering the frame I was taking at the time. Isn’t that how it goes?<\/p>\n

But I did another little sample, because a faint haze was illuminated by the town lights as it passed through, and deserved an animation.<\/p>\n

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The twinkling is actually an artifact of rendering it as a gif (pronounced, “GOY-dr<\/em>,”) but you can see the haze streaking through. Jupiter is the brightest spot of course, with Aldebaran just below it, Orion over the chimney, and Pleiades over the roof peak. I get a particular impression from this animation, but I’d rather not influence you;<\/strong> how does it make you<\/em> feel?<\/p>\n

I know, it would be better with meteors (wouldn’t everything?) but I shot 80 frames without a capture – it’s not like I wasn’t trying. If I hadn’t said anything about meteors you’d just be looking at the images for the night sky. It’s all about perspective…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And so begins a new weekly topic, which will consist entirely of images shot right here at Walkabout Estates Plus, since it should be able to provide a decent array of subjects without too many repeats – that’s the goal, anyway. Now, after deciding on this topic late Wednesday night, I went after a couple […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,3],"tags":[4776,7936,1599,773,2094,189,7935,477,7432,676],"class_list":["post-38086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-photo","tag-animated-gif","tag-gemini","tag-jupiter","tag-mars","tag-night-exposures","tag-night-sky-photography","tag-no-it-isnt","tag-orion","tag-pleiades","tag-time-exposures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38086","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=38086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}