{"id":7654,"date":"2011-11-04T01:00:04","date_gmt":"2011-11-04T11:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=7654"},"modified":"2013-02-04T13:41:17","modified_gmt":"2013-02-04T23:41:17","slug":"postcard-from-the-universe-the-tarantula-from-hawai%ca%bbi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=7654","title":{"rendered":"Postcard from the Universe &#8211; The Tarantula from Hawai\u02bbi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK&#8230;  It is a crappy astrophoto.<\/p>\n<p>But it does prove one thing, you can see the Large Magellanic Cloud from Mauna Kea&#8230;  Barely.<\/p>\n<p>The photo was taken from the Mauna Kea VIS parking lot as the LMC rose above the slopes of Mauna Loa.  As the object skirted the distant ridge line I shot a dozen frames with the 60D and the TV-76mm scope.  The resulting photo is nothing to be proud of, I expected it to be pretty bad when I shot it.  It was taken simply to prove the point.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7655\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7655\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=7655\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7655\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/NGC2070-20110925.jpg\" alt=\"Tarantula NGC2070\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7655\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7655\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><br \/>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darkerview.com\/scripts\/query.php?ObjID=NGC2070\">Tarantula Nebula, NGC2070<\/a>, rising above the slopes of Mauna Loa<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK&#8230; It is a crappy astrophoto. But it does prove one thing, you can see the Large Magellanic Cloud from Mauna Kea&#8230; Barely. The photo was taken from the Mauna Kea VIS parking lot as the LMC rose above the slopes of Mauna Loa. As the object skirted the distant ridge line I shot a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=7654\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Postcard from the Universe &#8211; The Tarantula from Hawai\u02bbi&#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":[34,260],"tags":[840,838,839,837],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7654"}],"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=7654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}