{"id":17671,"date":"2015-12-18T01:00:51","date_gmt":"2015-12-18T11:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=17671"},"modified":"2015-11-28T19:21:06","modified_gmt":"2015-11-29T05:21:06","slug":"a-winter-star-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=17671","title":{"rendered":"A Winter Star Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Arizona, during the heat of summer we would head for the mountains.  We knew dozens of fire roads and meadows where a telescope could be set up under the stars among the cool forest pines.  When the weather chilled, we headed to the low desert, our favorite site was Sentinel, Arizona.  A desolate volcanic field just off Interstate 8 between Gila Bend and Yuma. It was still cool at night, a beautiful place to enjoy the desert skies&#8230;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_17672\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17672\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/CA75-21-05337-DC.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/CA75-21-05337-DC-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"Deep Violet at Sentinel\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/CA75-21-05337-DC-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/CA75-21-05337-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-17672\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Deep Violet at Sentinel, Arizona for the 2015 Pierre Schwarr Star Gaze<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Arizona, during the heat of summer we would head for the mountains. We knew dozens of fire roads and meadows where a telescope could be set up under the stars among the cool forest pines. When the weather chilled, we headed to the low desert, our favorite site was Sentinel, Arizona. A desolate volcanic &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=17671\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Winter Star Party&#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":[525,331],"tags":[2108,357,250,527,351,158],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17671"}],"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=17671"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17674,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17671\/revisions\/17674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}