{"id":884,"date":"2003-07-25T21:21:14","date_gmt":"2003-07-25T21:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/?p=884"},"modified":"2020-08-20T21:21:43","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T21:21:43","slug":"mars-the-bringer-of-lack-of-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/2003\/07\/25\/mars-the-bringer-of-lack-of-sleep\/","title":{"rendered":"Mars, the bringer of Lack-of-Sleep"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We were working late into the evening at home last night, but about 12:30 we stopped and I lugged the telescope outside to take a look at Mars, which was well up in the South-East sky by that time. We got a fabulous view, certainly the best I&#8217;ve ever seen it. The 9mm eyepeice resolved the planet into a small pink disc, with one of the polar ice caps clearly visible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s a shame that Mars rises so late, because it&#8217;s a great sight and most people aren&#8217;t going to stay up to enjoy it, or get up early enough to see it setting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were working late into the evening at home last night, but about 12:30 we stopped and I lugged the telescope outside to take a look at Mars, which was well up in the South-East sky by that time. We got a fabulous view, certainly the best I&#8217;ve ever seen it. The 9mm eyepeice resolved [&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-884","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\/884","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=884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}