{"id":8691,"date":"2013-04-25T12:00:38","date_gmt":"2013-04-25T22:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=8691"},"modified":"2013-04-25T10:31:55","modified_gmt":"2013-04-25T20:31:55","slug":"keck-and-the-hunt-for-extrasolar-planets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=8691","title":{"rendered":"Keck and the Hunt for Extrasolar Planets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A nice <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/video\/player\/0,32068,2286956635001_2141568,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">short video<\/a> on Keck and the hunt to find and confirm extrasolar planets.  It features regular Keck observer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifa.hawaii.edu\/~nader\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nader Haghighipour<\/a> from the Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii talking about his research into exoplanets.<\/p>\n<p>I had a chance to help out with some of the interior shots.  We had to hurry as the film crew was running late and they were up against the schedule, it was time to release the telescopes to the astronomers for the night.  It is nice to see the crew got the needed shots and to see the final result a few months later.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><object id=\"flashObj\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=9,0,47,0\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/c.brightcove.com\/services\/viewer\/federated_f9?isVid=1&#038;isUI=1\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#FFFFFF\" \/><param name=\"flashVars\" value=\"videoId=2286956635001&#038;linkBaseURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fvideo%2Fplayer%2F0%2C32068%2C2286956635001_2141568%2C00.html&#038;playerID=1917933886001&#038;playerKey=AQ~~,AAAAABGEUMg~,hNlIXLTZFZn-NQOazMchMDWH0SI1hX7f&#038;domain=embed&#038;dynamicStreaming=true\" \/><param name=\"base\" value=\"http:\/\/admin.brightcove.com\" \/><param name=\"seamlesstabbing\" value=\"false\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"swLiveConnect\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><\/object><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">How to Hunt for New Earths from Time Video<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A nice short video on Keck and the hunt to find and confirm extrasolar planets. It features regular Keck observer Nader Haghighipour from the Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii talking about his research into exoplanets. I had a chance to help out with some of the interior shots. We had to hurry as the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=8691\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Keck and the Hunt for Extrasolar Planets&#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":[9,8],"tags":[56,954,50],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8691"}],"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=8691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}