{"id":11073,"date":"2026-01-04T12:59:32","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T16:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=11073"},"modified":"2026-01-04T13:00:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T17:00:06","slug":"welcome-to-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2026\/01\/welcome-to-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260104_missionstomars.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260104_missionstomars-254x299.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"254\" height=\"299\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-11074\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260104_missionstomars-254x299.jpg 254w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260104_missionstomars-867x1023.jpg 867w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260104_missionstomars-127x150.jpg 127w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260104_missionstomars-768x906.jpg 768w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260104_missionstomars-1302x1536.jpg 1302w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260104_missionstomars.jpg 1488w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 254px) 100vw, 254px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAnother trip around the Sun, another round of creating expectations and benchmarks for the remainder of the next orbit.<\/p>\n<p>2025 &#8211; I did not meet my goal of 50 imaging sessions&#8230; I got to #49 in mid November and nothing after that.  Between cloud and cold, it just did not happen.<br \/>\nSo that left staying inside and catching up on some reading.<br \/>\nThis &#8220;Missions to Mars&#8221; book was an excellent read for anyone interested in planetary science, especially Mars.<\/p>\n<p>For 2026.. lets aim at 50 imaging sessions again and see what happens!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another trip around the Sun, another round of creating expectations and benchmarks for the remainder of the next orbit. 2025 &#8211; I did not meet my goal of 50 imaging sessions&#8230; I got to #49 in mid November and nothing after that. Between cloud and cold, it just did not happen. So that left staying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11073"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11077,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11073\/revisions\/11077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}