{"id":1550,"date":"2011-12-29T05:36:30","date_gmt":"2011-12-28T18:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/?p=1550"},"modified":"2013-02-03T21:45:19","modified_gmt":"2013-02-03T10:45:19","slug":"comet-lovejoy-fading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/?p=1550","title":{"rendered":"Comet Lovejoy fading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I would never have made a good milkman. This 4am waking is killing me. Ordinarily I&#8217;d stay up to see 4am, but <em>getting up<\/em> to see it is just crazy talk.<\/p>\n<p>Defeated by clouds, rain &amp; Christmas the past few days, this was my first opportunity to have a look since Christmas Eve. Comet Lovejoy had noticeibly dimmed, perhaps half to one magnitude. It had also shifted where previous observation had put it half a degree or so to the west of the Pointers, it was now slight to the right of them.<\/p>\n<p>A stiff breeze shifted the intermittant clouds past us, so there was some good viewing as well as spotting 2 satellites, the ISS, and a few meteorites. Barry had his trusty 12 inch dob set up and we got crisp viewing of Omega Centauri and Saturn &amp; its moons.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-1550 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=1551'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/DSC_0570-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=1552'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/DSC_0572-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 landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/?attachment_id=1553'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/DSC_0582-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=1554'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/DSC_0583-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 landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/?attachment_id=1555'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/DSC_0590-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 would never have made a good milkman. This 4am waking is killing me. Ordinarily I&#8217;d stay up to see 4am, but getting up to see it is just crazy talk. Defeated by clouds, rain &amp; Christmas the past few days, this was my first opportunity to have a look since Christmas Eve. Comet Lovejoy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/?p=1550\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Comet Lovejoy fading<\/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-1550","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\/1550","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=1550"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2302,"href":"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550\/revisions\/2302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}