{"id":14527,"date":"2014-01-14T03:00:55","date_gmt":"2014-01-14T08:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=14527"},"modified":"2014-01-14T03:00:55","modified_gmt":"2014-01-14T08:00:55","slug":"a-stitch-in-photoshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/14527","title":{"rendered":"A Stitch in \u2026 Photoshop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/startswithabang\/2014\/01\/10\/ask-ethan-19-why-does-the-milky-way-look-curved\/\">Why does the Milky Way look curved?<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Let me pose the following question to you:<\/p>\n<p><strong>How is it possible to get two points in the sky \u2014 180 degrees apart \u2014 into the same image?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s <em>not<\/em> possible, not unless you distorted something along the way! In this case, we had to distort the composite, stitched-together image in order to display the entire path with a flat horizon! This is a complicated task, similar to the reason why it\u2019s impossible to make a flat map of a sphere that simultaneously has all the properties you\u2019d desire!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why does the Milky Way look curved? Let me pose the following question to you: How is it possible to get two points in the sky \u2014 180 degrees apart \u2014 into the same image? It\u2019s not possible, not unless &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/14527\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14527","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=14527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}