{"id":18426,"date":"2016-03-09T01:00:13","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T11:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=18426"},"modified":"2016-03-08T22:17:40","modified_gmt":"2016-03-09T08:17:40","slug":"march-8-2016-solar-eclipse-from-kawaihae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=18426","title":{"rendered":"March 8, 2016 Solar Eclipse from Kawaihae"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The seeing was terrible, but at least we could see the Sun while much of the island was overcast and raining.  I had hoped to set up in the parking lot for Pu\u02bbukohala Heiau but arrived a few minutes after they closed the gate.  Instead I set up just below at Spencer Beach park.<\/p>\n<p>Of course the telescope drew a crowd of folks who wanted a look.  No matter, an eclipse is a slow motion affair with plenty of time to share the eyepiece.  I showed my guests how to take photos with their cell phones at the eyepiece, so everyone got a photo or three of the event.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18427\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18427\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=18427\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18427\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/CH77-76-16068-DC-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"March 8th, 2016 Solar Eclipse\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/CH77-76-16068-DC-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/CH77-76-16068-DC-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/CH77-76-16068-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-18427\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The solar eclipse of March 8th, 2016 taken from Spencer Beach State Park.  Celestron C8 with a Canon 6D at cassegrain focus, 2000mm focal length<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The seeing was terrible, but at least we could see the Sun while much of the island was overcast and raining. I had hoped to set up in the parking lot for Pu\u02bbukohala Heiau but arrived a few minutes after they closed the gate. Instead I set up just below at Spencer Beach park. Of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=18426\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;March 8, 2016 Solar Eclipse from Kawaihae&#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":[34,18],"tags":[312,307],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18426"}],"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=18426"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18429,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18426\/revisions\/18429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}