{"id":26879,"date":"2019-10-04T01:00:32","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T11:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=26879"},"modified":"2019-09-28T15:59:17","modified_gmt":"2019-09-29T01:59:17","slug":"comet-c-2018-w2-africano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=26879","title":{"rendered":"Comet C\/2018 W2 Africano"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A modest comet is currently crossing the evening sky, at about 8th magnitude C\/2018 W2 Africano can be appreciated in small telescopes. Last week I decided to add it to the target list for a few images.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> The many images are registered on the comet during processing. Each image showing the motion of the comet as it moves fairly quickly among the stars in the hour or so the camera was taking frames.  Thus the stars become multicolored streaks in this combined image&#8230; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=26880\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/C2018W2Africano20190924-600x600.jpg\" alt=\"Comet C\/2018 W2 Africano taken on the evening of Sept, 24th, 2019 as it passed through Pegasus\" class=\"wp-image-26880\" srcset=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/C2018W2Africano20190924-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/C2018W2Africano20190924-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/C2018W2Africano20190924.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Comet C\/2018 W2 Africano taken on the evening of Sept, 24th, 2019 as it passed through Pegasus<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A modest comet is currently crossing the evening sky, at about 8th magnitude C\/2018 W2 Africano can be appreciated in small telescopes. Last week I decided to add it to the target list for a few images. The many images are registered on the comet during processing. Each image showing the motion of the comet &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=26879\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Comet C\/2018 W2 Africano&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26880,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[34],"tags":[279,337],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/C2018W2Africano20190924.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26879"}],"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=26879"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26883,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26879\/revisions\/26883"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}