{"id":1543,"date":"2011-12-24T05:05:18","date_gmt":"2011-12-23T19:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/?p=1543"},"modified":"2013-01-13T14:02:01","modified_gmt":"2013-01-13T03:02:01","slug":"comet-lovejoy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/?p=1543","title":{"rendered":"Comet Lovejoy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d been vaguely following a few comets this year including the one that got <a title=\"Sun eats comet\" href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/8191-comet-eaten-sun-spacecraft-watches.html\" target=\"_blank\">eaten by the sun <\/a>\u00a0but only read in last night&#8217;s paper that Comet Lovejoy which narrowly missed the sun itself, has put out a lovely tail and is clearly visible in the wee hours.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the <a title=\"Comet Lovejoy from ISS\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/multimedia\/videogallery\/index.html?media_id=125774121\" target=\"_blank\">NASA video <\/a>from the ISS.<\/p>\n<p>So, I thought iI&#8217;d give it a go. An hour or so before dawn is what <a title=\"Spaceweather\" href=\"http:\/\/spaceweather.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Spaceweather <\/a>said, I grabbed my trusty D300s, tripod &amp; remote &amp; headed South to see what I could see.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-1543 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/?attachment_id=1544'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/DSC_0518-ps-150x150.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/?attachment_id=1545'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/DSC_0536-ps-150x150.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/?attachment_id=1546'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/DSC_0522-ps-150x150.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d been vaguely following a few comets this year including the one that got eaten by the sun \u00a0but only read in last night&#8217;s paper that Comet Lovejoy which narrowly missed the sun itself, has put out a lovely tail and is clearly visible in the wee hours. Here&#8217;s the NASA video from the ISS. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/?p=1543\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Comet Lovejoy<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[33,77,57],"class_list":["post-1543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","tag-astronomy-2","tag-comet","tag-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1543"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1879,"href":"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543\/revisions\/1879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}