{"id":2089,"date":"2011-05-16T12:49:41","date_gmt":"2011-05-16T12:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=2089"},"modified":"2011-05-16T12:49:41","modified_gmt":"2011-05-16T12:49:41","slug":"the-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=2089","title":{"rendered":"The sky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/seattle-photographer-captures-the-entire-night-sky-in-37440-exposures\/2011\/05\/12\/AFnuGIxG_story.html\">one good reason<\/a> to quit your day job: spend a year or so lugging a set of six astrophotography cameras across two continents, to take some 37,000 exposures of the night sky and stitch them together into an amazing all-sky picture called <a href=\"http:\/\/skysurvey.org\/\">The Photopic Sky Survey<\/a>. The scientific value of this picture may be negligible, but it is beautiful to look at, and I am sorely tempted to buy a high-quality print to hang somewhere on my wall. It is one of those pictures that give a true sensation of depth: you can see how nearby stars slowly dissolve into a diffuse, milky background, you can see how dust lanes obscure the Milky Way behind, you can see how the light of distant galaxies filters through. I wonder how a picture like this would have influenced <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Great_Debate\">The Great Debate<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/V3Photo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2090\" title=\"V3Photo\" src=\"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/V3Photo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/V3Photo.jpg 600w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/V3Photo-300x75.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=2089' send='false' layout='button_count' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s one good reason to quit your day job: spend a year or so lugging a set of six astrophotography cameras across two continents, to take some 37,000 exposures of the night sky and stitch them together into an amazing all-sky picture called The Photopic Sky Survey. The scientific value of this picture may be <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=2089' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-20-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2089"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2092,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2089\/revisions\/2092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}