{"id":1165,"date":"2007-10-30T15:16:26","date_gmt":"2007-10-30T22:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/?p=1165"},"modified":"2020-08-22T15:17:09","modified_gmt":"2020-08-22T22:17:09","slug":"not-packing-up-the-telescope-just-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/2007\/10\/30\/not-packing-up-the-telescope-just-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"Not packing up the telescope just yet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Much has happened over the last month, including an effort to get things packed into boxes. Well I&#8217;m not packing the telescope just yet because there&#8217;s a chance I can get a decent look at Comet Holmes which seems to have&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/spacewatch\/071026-comet-holmes-update.html\">undergone a mysterious brightening recently<\/a>. A couple of nights ago I went out to take a look but didn&#8217;t even bother lugging the &#8216;scope out because we had a full moon &#8211; the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap071025.html\">largest full moon of 2007<\/a>&nbsp; &#8211; and I couldn&#8217;t even see&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov\/apod\/image\/0710\/Holmes-Tehran3_inset.jpg\">Capella<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Perhaps tonight will be better? Unlikely. The telescope doesn&#8217;t have to be packed away this week. I&#8217;ll try later on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UPDATE: The comet is clearly naked-eye visible as a fuzzy dot, even with a just-waning moon nearby. I didn&#8217;t bother with the &#8216;scope. Maybe tomorrow night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Much has happened over the last month, including an effort to get things packed into boxes. Well I&#8217;m not packing the telescope just yet because there&#8217;s a chance I can get a decent look at Comet Holmes which seems to have&nbsp;undergone a mysterious brightening recently. A couple of nights ago I went out to take [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}