{"id":1219,"date":"2020-07-17T09:48:39","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T16:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/?p=1219"},"modified":"2020-09-07T12:54:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-07T19:54:00","slug":"comet-neowise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/2020\/07\/17\/comet-neowise\/","title":{"rendered":"Comet NEOWISE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"http:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/NEOWISE-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/NEOWISE-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/NEOWISE-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/NEOWISE-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/NEOWISE-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/NEOWISE-676x451.jpg 676w, https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/NEOWISE.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>NEOWISE from our back yard<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>NEOWISE is actually quite a credible naked-eye object, low in the North West. It helps to know where to look, and what to look for, but it is very definitely a bright nucleus with a tail fanning out. The most detail seen out of the corner of your eye.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the month goes on, the comet will roughly follow in the Three Leaps of the Gazelle (asterism) which you can see leading to the upper left in the image above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEOWISE is actually quite a credible naked-eye object, low in the North West. It helps to know where to look, and what to look for, but it is very definitely a bright nucleus with a tail fanning out. The most detail seen out of the corner of your eye. As the month goes on, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celestials","category-gallery","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219","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=1219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}