{"id":8775,"date":"2009-11-26T01:00:32","date_gmt":"2009-11-26T11:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=8775"},"modified":"2013-04-27T21:31:57","modified_gmt":"2013-04-28T07:31:57","slug":"lunar-halo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=8775","title":{"rendered":"Lunar Halo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atoptics.co.uk\/halo\/circmoon.htm\" target=\"_blank\">lunar halo<\/a> may be quite pretty, but along with pretty sunsets, it indicates lousy sky conditions for astronomy.<\/p>\n<p>In this case a high layer of thin cirrus, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atoptics.co.uk\/halo\/circ1.htm\" target=\"_blank\">consisting of small ice crystals<\/a>, cover the sky.  The crystal shape is just right to bend the light at a specific angle, creating a halo 22&deg; from the light source.  A faint hint of color can be seen at the inner edge of the halo.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8776\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8776\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=8776\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8776\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/CD14-54-09303-DC.jpg\" alt=\"Lunar Halo\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8776\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8776\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.atoptics.co.uk\/halo\/circmoon.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Lunar 22&deg; halo<\/a> over Mauna Kea<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lunar halo may be quite pretty, but along with pretty sunsets, it indicates lousy sky conditions for astronomy. In this case a high layer of thin cirrus, consisting of small ice crystals, cover the sky. The crystal shape is just right to bend the light at a specific angle, creating a halo 22&deg; from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=8775\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lunar Halo&#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":[764],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8775"}],"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=8775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}