{"id":27903,"date":"2020-07-12T01:00:42","date_gmt":"2020-07-12T11:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=27903"},"modified":"2020-07-12T06:57:55","modified_gmt":"2020-07-12T16:57:55","slug":"mauna-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=27903","title":{"rendered":"Mauna Road"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Two missions up into the saddle this week to go comet watching.  Comet C\/2020 F3 NEOWISE is rising in the northeast, blocked from view at home by the mauna, need to drive up to where I can see it.<br><br>With the comet as an excuse to get out well before dawn I may as well add a few secondary missions to the plan&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Make sure the drone batteries are charged for a few flights to photograph the saddle scenery at sunrise.  The lava fields are spectacular at sunrise, one of my favorite places on the island.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The next mission is to photograph pueo along old Saddle Road.  I tried two times, both times not a single bird to be seen.  Where are the owls?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In any case a couple memorable trips into the dawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=27902\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CK03-06-20192-DC.jpg\" alt=\"Looking down the Mauna Loa access road towards Mauna Kea\" class=\"wp-image-27902\" srcset=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CK03-06-20192-DC.jpg 900w, https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CK03-06-20192-DC-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Looking down the Mauna Loa access road towards Mauna Kea<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two missions up into the saddle this week to go comet watching. Comet C\/2020 F3 NEOWISE is rising in the northeast, blocked from view at home by the mauna, need to drive up to where I can see it. With the comet as an excuse to get out well before dawn I may as well &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=27903\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mauna Road&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27902,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[32,226],"tags":[1427,88,2106,602],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CK03-06-20192-DC.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27903"}],"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=27903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27904,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27903\/revisions\/27904"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}