{"id":1517,"date":"2013-08-14T14:55:38","date_gmt":"2013-08-14T21:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/?p=1517"},"modified":"2013-08-14T14:55:38","modified_gmt":"2013-08-14T21:55:38","slug":"night-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/night-sky\/","title":{"rendered":"Night Sky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1519\" src=\"http:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130811-_akp7207-400x266.jpg\" alt=\"Night Sky\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Last weekend was supposed to be the peak of the Persieds Meteor shower. My daughter and I went out to see what wee can see, and found out a few things&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>First, staying up past 2 AM was tough. I must be getting old&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Second, it is hard to focus in complete dark.<\/p>\n<p>but probably most important, the night sky is quite fascinating. Even though we did not leave the city, and there was a bit of cloud cover (which lead to a fair bit of light pollution) I was quite surprised at how well the camera recorded stars. The image above was exposed a longish time{{1}}, but notice that the exposure kept the city lights, the forground (which was only lit by a distant streetlamp) and even the stars in the sky&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I will admit that I had to massage the RAW file a little bit, but this is all one exposure, not HDR or double exposure. Amazing&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>[[1]]For those interested, the exposure was 30 seconds at f3.5 at ISO 100[[1]]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend was supposed to be the peak of the Persieds Meteor shower. My daughter and I went out to see what wee can see, and found out a few things&#8230; First, staying up past 2 AM was tough. I must be getting old&#8230; Second, it is hard to focus in complete dark. but probably [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1519,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,7,20,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bas-retouch","category-photography","category-retouching","category-uncategorized","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}