{"id":6132,"date":"2015-01-13T09:47:51","date_gmt":"2015-01-13T13:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=6132"},"modified":"2015-01-13T09:48:31","modified_gmt":"2015-01-13T13:48:31","slug":"comet-c2014-q2-lovejoy-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2015\/01\/comet-c2014-q2-lovejoy-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Comet C\/2014 Q2 Lovejoy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another cold night but at least it cleared.<\/p>\n<p>This is Comet C\/2014 Q2 Lovejoy on the evening of Monday 2015 January 12th around 19:29EST taken with a Canon Powershot ELPH 120IS camera on a tripod. \u00a0It is a 15 second exposure at ISO 1600 and very wide angle, showing the Hyades (lower left) and the Pleiades (upper central) at approx 8.6 mm focal length. \u00a0It was about -10C with a good stiff wind from the north at the time.<\/p>\n<p>This has been a great comet, becoming naked eye in the dark country skies \u00a0a few days ago. \u00a0Too bad it has become -28C this morning and will stay that way for a couple of days. \u00a0It would be nice to get the telescope imager up and running but this weather and temperature is just not conducive anymore.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6133\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6133\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/20150112c-2811c2014q2lovejoy15secb.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-6133\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/20150112c-2811c2014q2lovejoy15secb-1023x767.jpg\" alt=\"Comet C\/2014 Q2 Lovejoy\" width=\"520\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/20150112c-2811c2014q2lovejoy15secb-1023x767.jpg 1023w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/20150112c-2811c2014q2lovejoy15secb-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/20150112c-2811c2014q2lovejoy15secb-299x224.jpg 299w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/20150112c-2811c2014q2lovejoy15secb.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6133\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Comet C\/2014 Q2 Lovejoy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another cold night but at least it cleared. This is Comet C\/2014 Q2 Lovejoy on the evening of Monday 2015 January 12th around 19:29EST taken with a Canon Powershot ELPH 120IS camera on a tripod. \u00a0It is a 15 second exposure at ISO 1600 and very wide angle, showing the Hyades (lower left) and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6132","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\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}