{"id":11176,"date":"2013-10-28T12:00:31","date_gmt":"2013-10-28T22:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=11176"},"modified":"2013-10-28T10:48:14","modified_gmt":"2013-10-28T20:48:14","slug":"ison-webcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=11176","title":{"rendered":"ISON Webcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We put it together in very short notice.  Fortunately a webcast is pretty easy to put together.<\/p>\n<p>Keck is hosting a sizable team of folks who are here to observe comet ISON.  Astronomers from several institutions are participating in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.isoncampaign.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">NASA Comet ISON Observing Campaign<\/a>. They have a total of 6&frac12; nights, but only the last few hours of each night as the comet rises in the dawn.  Comet C\/2012 S1 ISON is starting to encounter significant publicity, we may as well take advantage of this.<\/p>\n<p>It was a lot of fun.  I particularly like the spot (41:00) where I made the mistake of saying spectra were not very pretty to look at in a room full of spectroscopists.  These folks love spectra and quickly corrected me, leading to a nice discussion on why spectra are so valuable to astronomy, often more valuable than photos.<\/p>\n<p>The video is embedded below.  A lot of good information about comet ISON, indeed about comets in general.  Nothing like having a room full of comet experts&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/77927015\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We put it together in very short notice. Fortunately a webcast is pretty easy to put together. Keck is hosting a sizable team of folks who are here to observe comet ISON. Astronomers from several institutions are participating in the NASA Comet ISON Observing Campaign. They have a total of 6&frac12; nights, but only the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=11176\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;ISON Webcast&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[41,8],"tags":[632,337,953,50,809,60],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11176"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11176"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11185,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11176\/revisions\/11185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}