{"id":49,"date":"2014-07-10T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-10T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13thstone.com\/blog\/?p=49"},"modified":"2014-07-14T21:12:48","modified_gmt":"2014-07-15T03:12:48","slug":"apple-core","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/13thstone.com\/blog\/?p=49","title":{"rendered":"Apple of my eye."},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"id_53c45b47a3c3c3664131365\" class=\"text_exposed_root text_exposed\"><span class=\"text_exposed_show\" style=\"color: #993300;\">Pages on the calendar turn and practice is few and far between. One significant occurrence is my ability to access both dark site observatory locations on my own (eg. I was granted solo access). The biggest upside here is that when the weather is nice, I can elect to exchange sleep for the long drive to\/from the site and get a little exposure time in without coordinating with a larger group. <\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_root text_exposed\"><span class=\"text_exposed_show\" style=\"color: #993300;\">Last night, the moon was Waxing Gibbous, so it was around 85% of full. This makes even being at a &#8220;dark site&#8221; not so dark. None the less, it was a beautiful night. The temperature eventually dropped to the high 70&#8217;s with a slight breeze. <\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_root text_exposed\"><span class=\"text_exposed_show\" style=\"color: #993300;\">Initially I attempted 10 subs on the Veil nebula, but the moonlight prevented any deep imaging of fainter targets. I decided to try for a brighter DSO&#8230; one you can actually make out as a fuzzy blur with binoculars just to the side of the constellation Sagitta (Latin for &#8220;arrow&#8221; and not related in any way to the larger constellation Sagittarius). Messier 27, or the Dumbbell Nebula (NGC 6853) is a planetary nebula in the constellation Vulpecula, at a distance of about 1,360 light years. This object was the first planetary nebula to be discovered; by Charles Messier in 1764. It is sometimes also referred to as the Apple Core Nebula.<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"userContentSecondary fcg\" style=\"color: gray;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_50\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-50\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/13thstone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/m27v1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-50\" src=\"http:\/\/13thstone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/m27v1-300x261.jpg\" alt=\"Messier 27\" width=\"300\" height=\"261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/13thstone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/m27v1-300x261.jpg 300w, https:\/\/13thstone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/m27v1.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-50\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Messier 27<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pages on the calendar turn and practice is few and far between. One significant occurrence is my ability to access both dark site observatory locations on my own (eg. I was granted solo access). The biggest upside here is that when the weather is nice, I can elect to exchange sleep for the long drive &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/13thstone.com\/blog\/?p=49\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Apple of my eye.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49","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\/p4P0Vj-N","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/13thstone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/13thstone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/13thstone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/13thstone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/13thstone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/13thstone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86,"href":"https:\/\/13thstone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions\/86"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/13thstone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/13thstone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/13thstone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}