{"id":11830,"date":"2012-06-06T03:00:48","date_gmt":"2012-06-06T08:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=11830"},"modified":"2012-06-06T03:00:48","modified_gmt":"2012-06-06T08:00:48","slug":"kind-of-a-drag-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/11830","title":{"rendered":"Kind of a Drag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cloudy, with almost no chance of Venus, ended up being the weather yesterday.  I did manage a glimpse through a telescope, during one of the brief interludes when the clouds thinned.  I also snapped this, with my transit\/eclipse glasses covering my iPad camera lens<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/files\/2012\/06\/Transit2012_14.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/files\/2012\/06\/Transit2012_14.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"396\" height=\"386\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-11831\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2012\/06\/Transit2012_14.jpg 396w, http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2012\/06\/Transit2012_14-300x292.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 396px) 100vw, 396px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A somewhat pixelated Venus <em>might<\/em> be that dark blotch in the upper left, just inside the rim.  Maybe.  It was taken about the right time for it to be there, I think. But it might just be part of the cloud.<\/p>\n<p>We had an OK turnout and it was fun talking to people, play with some of the other kids and I even got a chance to tour our 26&#8243; telescope, which I had not previously visited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cloudy, with almost no chance of Venus, ended up being the weather yesterday. I did manage a glimpse through a telescope, during one of the brief interludes when the clouds thinned. I also snapped this, with my transit\/eclipse glasses covering &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/11830\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-tmi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}