{"id":89,"date":"2013-08-26T12:17:47","date_gmt":"2013-08-26T12:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/astronomy\/?p=89"},"modified":"2013-09-13T20:10:39","modified_gmt":"2013-09-13T20:10:39","slug":"aug-24th-2013-session-ring-nebula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/astronomy\/2013\/08\/26\/aug-24th-2013-session-ring-nebula\/","title":{"rendered":"Aug 24th, 2013: Ring Nebula"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the main viewing objects of the August 24th session was the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ring_nebula\">Ring Nebula<\/a>. \u00a0It&#8217;s an object that can&#8217;t be resolved with binoculars and is almost directly overhead in our Northern summer skies.<\/p>\n<p>Nebulae and other deep sky objects benefit from having a larger telescope to collect faint light, having a calm atmosphere (Saturday was &#8220;average&#8221;), and having little to no light pollution. \u00a0The best case, as in the Hubble telescope pictures, is to be above the Earth&#8217;s atmosphere completely, but that&#8217;s not something easily arranged. The pictures in the Wikipedia article linked above are very nice examples, some digitally enhanced. We pushed the edge of a couple of those categories, but most people were able to see the &#8220;ring&#8221; aspect of the nebulae (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocketmime.com\/astronomy\/Summer\/lyra.html\">this link<\/a> leads to a picture closer to what we saw).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the main viewing objects of the August 24th session was the Ring Nebula. \u00a0It&#8217;s an object that can&#8217;t be resolved with binoculars and is almost directly overhead in our Northern summer skies. Nebulae and other deep sky objects &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/astronomy\/2013\/08\/26\/aug-24th-2013-session-ring-nebula\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"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":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96,"href":"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions\/96"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}