{"id":27517,"date":"2020-03-21T23:48:45","date_gmt":"2020-03-22T09:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=27517"},"modified":"2020-03-22T17:52:50","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T03:52:50","slug":"social-distance-measured-in-light-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=27517","title":{"rendered":"Social Distance  Measured in Light-Years"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Social media is currently full of advice on what to do while stuck at home waiting out a pandemic. I find I need no advice&#8230; A dark sky and a telescope? No problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/IMG_4180-200x200.jpg\" alt=\"The observing notebook fills with notes beside the telescope\" class=\"wp-image-27518\" srcset=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/IMG_4180-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/IMG_4180-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/IMG_4180.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 85vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption>The observing notebook fills with notes beside the telescope<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Awake at 4am this morning I pulled the <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=23108\">Astrola<\/a> from the garage and observed until the dawn lit the sky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once the evening clouds dissipated I again pulled out the telescope and observed for another two hours this evening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following the advice of staying at home I have been observing alone from our driveway.  This weekend would have been our normal club dark-of-the-moon star party at Ka\u02bbohe, getting together with other observers.  Obviously this was cancelled. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This period of social isolation is measured in pages of notes on stars and nebulae, measured in the light-years I cross while peering into the universe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social media is currently full of advice on what to do while stuck at home waiting out a pandemic. I find I need no advice&#8230; A dark sky and a telescope? No problem. Awake at 4am this morning I pulled the Astrola from the garage and observed until the dawn lit the sky. Once the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=27517\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Social Distance  Measured in Light-Years&#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":[331],"tags":[2715,60,2717,2716],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27517"}],"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=27517"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27528,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27517\/revisions\/27528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}