{"id":684,"date":"2014-03-03T02:30:41","date_gmt":"2014-03-03T02:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joebohanon.com\/wordpress\/?p=684"},"modified":"2014-03-03T02:30:41","modified_gmt":"2014-03-03T02:30:41","slug":"winter-star-party-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.joebohanon.com\/wordpress\/winter-star-party-part-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Star Party Part 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

The fifth night it rained all night, which ended up providing fantastic skies for the sixth night. I tried a few objects early on, but they didn’t come out too well. I waited until around 2 AM and started taking shots in Centaurus. The first is the radio galaxy Centaurus A. This was with the Astrotech and 60DA, ISO 1600, 49 x 1 min.<\/p>\n

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\nI had tried Omega Centauri on earlier nights, but I got a fantastic shot this evening with stars resolved in the core. This was with the Astrotech and 60DA, ISO 1600, 35 x 30 sec.<\/p>\n

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\nFollowing my earlier shot of Scorpius, I had been dying to get a good shot of the Milky Way region visible in the edge of that and I got my wish tonight. here’s the resulting shot. This was with the Astrotrac and 60DA, 50mm, f\/4, ISO 1600, 16 x 5 min.<\/p>\n

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\nThe highlight of this image is the Pipe Nebula in the middle.<\/p>\n

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\nFollowing this shot, I couldn’t resist a similar shot of Sagittarius with the same settings. It was getting light so I only ended up with three shots here.<\/p>\n

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\nI then took one really wide field shot of Scorpius and Sagittarius as twilight was starting to break. Venus is the incredibly bright star at the bottom left.<\/p>\n

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\nFinally, i watched the sun rise over the ocean. I swear I saw a reverse green flash, but the coolest thing I saw, which I’ve never seen before, was a mirage sun. This is caused by refraction (ie a mirage). You can see it on image it looks like there are two suns. I’m also not sure, but I might have gotten a solar prominence (thought it might just be another atmospheric effect).<\/p>\n

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That was the last of the pics from the Winter Star Party. I had a great time there and hope to get back again sometime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The fifth night it rained all night, which ended up providing fantastic skies for the sixth night. I tried a few objects early on, but they didn’t come out too well. I waited until around 2 AM and started taking shots in Centaurus. The first is the radio galaxy Centaurus A. This was with the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7qGdg-b2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.joebohanon.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.joebohanon.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.joebohanon.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.joebohanon.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.joebohanon.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.joebohanon.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":693,"href":"http:\/\/www.joebohanon.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684\/revisions\/693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.joebohanon.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.joebohanon.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.joebohanon.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}