{"id":327,"date":"2009-09-25T03:50:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-25T03:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/wordpress\/?p=327"},"modified":"2009-09-25T03:50:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-25T03:50:00","slug":"whole-night-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/2009\/09\/25\/whole-night-sky\/","title":{"rendered":"The Whole Night Sky*"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/photos\/blog5\/nightsky.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Tonight I stole my son to go star gazing with some junior high students from my school. My colleague, Mr. Schneider, managed to gather a few astronomers with their impressive telescopes in our back field at the school. He gave a short talk and presented about 10 minutes of a video about God and the majesty of the celestial bodies.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The sky managed to stay clear enough despite a drifting haze from the burnings of pine (because of pine beetle infestation) in Canmore. What I saw in the heavens was absolutely astounding. The four main features are pictured above:<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Earth&#8217;s Moon<\/li>\n<li>Jupiter and its four main moons (Io, Europe, Ganymede, Callisto)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sidleach.com\/m13.jpg\">M13 Hercules Star Cluster<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Ring Nebula<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div>If Blaise didn&#8217;t get cold and tired, I would have stayed out for hours staring at the sky. Truly glorious.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>*So, the title comes from a song from Bruce Cockburn&#8217;s <i>The Charity of Night<\/i> album, but the blog really shares nothing with the song aside from the moniker. Plus it&#8217;s cool to put a star next to the title. I should note too that I didn&#8217;t take these pictures. Maybe one day.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/photos\/blog5\/stars.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I took this photo in New Brunswick and was pretty proud of it.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight I stole my son to go star gazing with some junior high students from my school. My colleague, Mr. Schneider, managed to gather a few astronomers with their impressive telescopes in our back field at the school. He gave a short talk and presented about 10 minutes of a video about God and the &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/2009\/09\/25\/whole-night-sky\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1380,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9,11,20,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","post","publish","author-admin","post-327","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-christianity","category-education","category-fatherhood","category-nature","category-zr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}