{"id":11852,"date":"2014-04-20T01:00:29","date_gmt":"2014-04-20T11:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=11852"},"modified":"2013-12-20T13:50:33","modified_gmt":"2013-12-20T23:50:33","slug":"postcard-from-the-universe-the-inkblot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=11852","title":{"rendered":"Postcard from the Universe &#8211; The Inkblot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A frame filled with stars beyond counting while looking into a small part of the core of our Milky Way galaxy.  This area of the sky is endlessly entrancing as you see the immensity of our galaxy demonstrated in a very dramatic fashion.<\/p>\n<p>At the center is the small <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darkerview.com\/scripts\/query.php?ObjID=NGC6520\">star cluster NGC6520<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darkerview.com\/scripts\/query.php?B86\">dark nebula B86<\/a>.  These two create one of my favorite showpiece views when viewing from a dark site with a large telescope.  Even many people who have done a fair amount of observing have never looked at a dark nebula before.  A great object to select when other telescopes are showing the usual stuff.<\/p>\n<p>The photo is the sum of five separate five minute exposures with the Canon 20Da and a TV-76mm telescope.  Taken from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darkerview.com\/darkview\/index.php?\/archives\/1200-In-the-Driveway-Again.html\">my driveway in Waikoloa<\/a> the image is about two degrees (four times the width of the full Moon) from top to bottom.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11853\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11853\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/ngc6520-20090809.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/ngc6520-20090809.jpg\" alt=\"The Inkblot\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11853\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11853\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The cluster NGC6520 and the dark nebula B86 lost in the immensity of Baade&#8217;s Window<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A frame filled with stars beyond counting while looking into a small part of the core of our Milky Way galaxy. This area of the sky is endlessly entrancing as you see the immensity of our galaxy demonstrated in a very dramatic fashion. At the center is the small star cluster NGC6520 and the dark &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=11852\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Postcard from the Universe &#8211; The Inkblot&#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":[260],"tags":[344,1498,1500,1499,1009],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11852"}],"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=11852"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11855,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11852\/revisions\/11855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}