{"id":223,"date":"2006-01-07T23:57:58","date_gmt":"2006-01-07T23:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/2006\/01\/07\/january_7_updat\/"},"modified":"2006-01-07T23:57:58","modified_gmt":"2006-01-07T23:57:58","slug":"january_7_updat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/2006\/01\/07\/january_7_updat\/","title":{"rendered":"January 7 Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

As you’ve probably noticed, things haven’t been very busy in the realm of astronomy around here lately. Over the past month, I did<\/i> manage to make 1 minor planet and 3 DSO observations. I’ve added them as follows:
\nM50<\/a>
\nM29<\/a>
\nAsteroid 3 Juno<\/a>
\nNGC 869 and NGC 884 (The Double Cluster in Perseus)<\/a>
\nWe got some partly cloudy observing in at the Lowell Observatory Rotunda patio tonight. A 14″ SCT was aimed at Mars, and I caught a glimpse of a well-defined North Polar Cap. My first sight of that feature so far–it’s been angled away or covered by the Polar Hood otherwise. We also got a tour\/demo from one of the astronomers who was remote-observing using a 31″ scope at Anderson Mesa from his comfy, warm desk on Mars Hill. He was surveying a globular cluster and measuring stellar rotations periods vs. age. I asked how they were determining rotation period, and they are able to measure regular dimming of individual stars caused by spots crossing the surface as the star rotates. This generates a luminosity profile over time that varies in the neighborhood of 1% due to these spots and they are able to determine rotation rates from this.
\nAn editor from Astronomy magazine contacted me a couple weeks ago at the suggestion of Brian Skiff regarding a Q & A article they were publishing on their website about “Today’s Sky Searches”<\/a>. They wanted to use one of the photos I took with Brian at the LONEOS observatory. If you have a subscription to the magazine, you can enter the subscription code and get access to the online content. It’s an informative article, and does a great job detailing the process that I made a fractured attempt<\/a> to describe a couple months ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As you’ve probably noticed, things haven’t been very busy in the realm of astronomy around here lately. Over the past month, I did manage to make 1 minor planet and 3 DSO observations. I’ve added them as follows: M50 M29 Asteroid 3…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":234,"url":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/2010\/01\/16\/ngc_2244_and_sh\/","url_meta":{"origin":223,"position":0},"title":"NGC 2244 and Sh 2-275 – The Rosette Nebula","author":"jperez1690","date":"January 16, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"NGC 2244 and Sh 2-275","rel":"","context":"In "Deep Sky"","block_context":{"text":"Deep Sky","link":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/category\/deep-sky\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":342,"url":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/2007\/07\/14\/ngc_5824\/","url_meta":{"origin":223,"position":1},"title":"NGC 5824","author":"jperez1690","date":"July 14, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"NGC 5824","rel":"","context":"In "Deep Sky"","block_context":{"text":"Deep Sky","link":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/category\/deep-sky\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":368,"url":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/2007\/10\/18\/ngc_457_and_ngc\/","url_meta":{"origin":223,"position":2},"title":"NGC 457 and NGC 436","author":"jperez1690","date":"October 18, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"NGC 457 and NGC 436","rel":"","context":"In "Deep Sky"","block_context":{"text":"Deep Sky","link":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/category\/deep-sky\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":549,"url":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/2010\/10\/05\/ngc_7006\/","url_meta":{"origin":223,"position":3},"title":"NGC 7006","author":"jperez1690","date":"October 5, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"NGC 7006","rel":"","context":"In "Deep Sky"","block_context":{"text":"Deep Sky","link":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/category\/deep-sky\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":556,"url":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/2010\/12\/17\/ngc_559\/","url_meta":{"origin":223,"position":4},"title":"NGC 559","author":"jperez1690","date":"December 17, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"NGC 0559","rel":"","context":"In "Deep Sky"","block_context":{"text":"Deep Sky","link":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/category\/deep-sky\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":259,"url":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/2006\/08\/04\/ngc_869_and_ngc\/","url_meta":{"origin":223,"position":5},"title":"NGC 869 and NGC 884 – The Double Cluster in Perseus","author":"jperez1690","date":"August 4, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"NGC 0869 and NGC 0884","rel":"","context":"In "Deep Sky"","block_context":{"text":"Deep Sky","link":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/category\/deep-sky\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}