{"id":100,"date":"2007-05-05T09:14:29","date_gmt":"2007-05-05T16:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/troyjohnstone.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/looking-up\/"},"modified":"2010-03-18T09:30:01","modified_gmt":"2010-03-18T16:30:01","slug":"looking-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/troyjohnstone.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/looking-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking up.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love taking photos of many different things in nature. Sometimes I combine it with one of my other interests: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.troyjohnstone.com\/astrophotography\/index.html\">astronomy<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Stars in Focus by Troy And Naomi, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/troyandnaomi\/450628812\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/229\/450628812_43ac633ff9.jpg\" alt=\"Stars in Focus\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAnother picture of the lower half of Orion with the even larger blue giant star, Rigel, in the lower right:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Photo Sharing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/troyandnaomi\/483308317\/\"><img src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/224\/483308317_3593f47054.jpg\" alt=\"Stars in Focus II\" width=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>How large are these stars? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.troyandnaomi.com\/2006\/12\/you-are-small-part-iii.html\">Watch this video for a hint of their mind-boggling size<\/a><\/p>\n<div>____________________________<\/div>\n<p>I went out the other night to get a picture of the sky just after sunset. Venus was quite bright in the twilight sky.<\/p>\n<p>Venus in the Trees<br \/>\n<a title=\"Photo Sharing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/troyandnaomi\/484978325\/\"><img src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/207\/484978325_f9012f98fa.jpg\" alt=\"Venus in the Trees\" width=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Taurus and the Pleiades are visible in this night shot. So is the orange sky-glow from the city of Owen Sound..<br \/>\n<a title=\"Photo Sharing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/troyandnaomi\/484984405\/\"><img src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/173\/484984405_3945e92fc4.jpg\" alt=\"Night Sky\" width=\"480\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n[click the image to see more details]<\/p>\n<p>God&#8217;s creation above keeps me looking up.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.troyjohnstone.com\/astrophotography\/index.html\">More photos of the night sky<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love taking photos of many different things in nature. Sometimes I combine it with one of my other interests: astronomy! Another picture of the lower half of Orion with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[9,7],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5ep3x-1C","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/troyjohnstone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/troyjohnstone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/troyjohnstone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/troyjohnstone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/troyjohnstone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/troyjohnstone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127,"href":"http:\/\/troyjohnstone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions\/127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/troyjohnstone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/troyjohnstone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/troyjohnstone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}