{"id":4851,"date":"2012-06-23T01:00:59","date_gmt":"2012-06-23T11:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=4851"},"modified":"2012-06-22T12:57:42","modified_gmt":"2012-06-22T22:57:42","slug":"postcard-from-the-universe-butterfly-cluster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=4851","title":{"rendered":"Postcard from the Universe &#8211; Butterfly Cluster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Known as M6, NGC6405, or The Butterfly Cluster, this pretty open cluster lies just above the tail of Scorpius.  Visible to the unaided eye under a dark sky, it is an easy photographic target.<\/p>\n<p>I have been working on improving the color balance in my astrophotos.  Color is an interesting and complex subject in photography, worse in astrophotography.  I think the results are much better here that in my previous work.  Hope to take a few more photos this week and will continue to experiment.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4852\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4852\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=4852\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4852\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/ngc6405-20120519.jpg\" alt=\"M6 The Butterfly Cluster\" title=\"M6 The Butterfly Cluster\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4852\" srcset=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/ngc6405-20120519.jpg 600w, https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/ngc6405-20120519-400x600.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4852\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">M6, the Butterfly Cluster, 9 x 1min Canon 60D and AT6RC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Known as M6, NGC6405, or The Butterfly Cluster, this pretty open cluster lies just above the tail of Scorpius. Visible to the unaided eye under a dark sky, it is an easy photographic target. I have been working on improving the color balance in my astrophotos. Color is an interesting and complex subject in photography, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=4851\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Postcard from the Universe &#8211; Butterfly Cluster&#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],"tags":[488,486,487,461],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4851"}],"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=4851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}