{"id":135,"date":"2008-02-20T23:34:44","date_gmt":"2008-02-21T04:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmiper.com\/?p=135"},"modified":"2008-02-20T23:34:44","modified_gmt":"2008-02-21T04:34:44","slug":"022008-eclipse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cmiper.com\/?p=135","title":{"rendered":"02.20.08 Eclipse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmiper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/dsc_0004.JPG\" title=\"Eclipse I\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cmiper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/dsc_0004.thumbnail.JPG\" alt=\"Eclipse I\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmiper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/dsc_0004-2.JPG\" title=\"Eclipse II\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cmiper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/dsc_0004-2.thumbnail.JPG\" alt=\"Eclipse II\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmiper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/dsc_0001-2.JPG\" title=\"Eclipse III\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cmiper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/dsc_0001-2.thumbnail.JPG\" alt=\"Eclipse III\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So the weather was supposed to be cloud cover and a chance of snow for tonight&#8217;s eclipse, but instead there was just a light, thin cloud cover, almost transparent even.\u00a0 I decided to go out to take a look but hadn&#8217;t planned on photographing it due to the foggy cloud layer and also due to the fact that I don&#8217;t have a zoom lens that&#8217;s really capable getting in close enough.\u00a0 Wouldn&#8217;t you know that the clouds cleared out just in time for the eclipse to start, and I had to scramble to get my camera ready and set.\u00a0 I got in a few photos, these were the best, though still not terrific.<\/p>\n<p>Just after the last photo, the clouds rolled back in, so that put an end to that.\u00a0 I have had very little luck with eclipses, mostly due to the magnification, but sometimes due to the exposure, it gets a bit tricky as the moon goes through the phases of the eclipse.<\/p>\n<p>The next eclipse is not due for over two years now, just long enough for me to forget\u00a0 all that I&#8217;ve learned about shooting eclipses and to screw it up once again. ;-)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the weather was supposed to be cloud cover and a chance of snow for tonight&#8217;s eclipse, but instead there was just a light, thin cloud cover, almost transparent even.\u00a0 I decided to go out to take a look but hadn&#8217;t planned on photographing it due to the foggy cloud layer and also due to&#133;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":[],"categories":[45,13,1,46],"tags":[48,102,26,57,30],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cmiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cmiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cmiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cmiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cmiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cmiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cmiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cmiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cmiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}