{"id":11318,"date":"2013-11-12T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-13T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=11318"},"modified":"2013-11-13T10:57:00","modified_gmt":"2013-11-13T20:57:00","slug":"dispatch-from-the-summit-a-cloudy-mountian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=11318","title":{"rendered":"Dispatch from the Summit &#8211; A Cloudy Mountian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Comet ISON is sinking rapidly into the dawn.  I have been waiting for a chance to photograph it for a couple weeks now.  The gear is ready to go.  Any morning that I have had available has been awash with clouds.  Not strictly my problem, Keck has lost quite a few nights to weather over the same time period.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight looks to be <a href=\"http:\/\/mkwc.ifa.hawaii.edu\/satellite\/\" target=\"_blank\">no exception<\/a>.  We have a number of engineering tests planned for Keck 1, including the first night on sky for a system many of us have put a lot of work into, the TRICK infrared tip-tilt detector for Keck 1 AO.  It does not look good.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong>  The night was a complete loss, the telescope never opened.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11319\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11319\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/CF78-53-13255-DC.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/CF78-53-13255-DC-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"A Cloudy Mountain\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/CF78-53-13255-DC-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/CF78-53-13255-DC.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11319\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Clouds obscure Mauna Kea on a late fall morning<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comet ISON is sinking rapidly into the dawn. I have been waiting for a chance to photograph it for a couple weeks now. The gear is ready to go. Any morning that I have had available has been awash with clouds. Not strictly my problem, Keck has lost quite a few nights to weather over &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=11318\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dispatch from the Summit &#8211; A Cloudy Mountian&#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":[11],"tags":[632,884,337,953],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11318"}],"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=11318"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11326,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11318\/revisions\/11326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}