{"id":390,"date":"2007-12-25T00:32:20","date_gmt":"2007-12-25T00:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/2007\/12\/25\/a_tendril_of_st\/"},"modified":"2007-12-25T00:32:20","modified_gmt":"2007-12-25T00:32:20","slug":"a_tendril_of_st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/2007\/12\/25\/a_tendril_of_st\/","title":{"rendered":"A Tendril of Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"

While going over the Milky Way image I just finished processing, my eye kept being drawn to a rope of stars peeling away from the Great Rift in Serpens Cauda, through IC 4665 in Ophiuchus, and on up into Hercules. I think this subtle tentacle of stars is probably emphasized by some even subtler swaths of galactic dust that border it. Follow the link below to a rollover graphic showing where I see this string of stars:<\/p>\n

Tendril of Stars<\/a><\/p>\n

I tried to find evidence of it in some other Milky Way photographs, but I had a hard time finding any that framed the Milky Way like this. I did find one image that also picks up this faint river: Courtney Seligman’s Milk Way Site<\/a>. I’ll be interested to see if I can pick this ‘structure’ up visually when this part of the sky returns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Tendril of Stars<\/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":[35,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asterism","category-astro-photography"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":516,"url":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/2009\/12\/18\/drawn_to_the_un_9\/","url_meta":{"origin":390,"position":0},"title":"Drawn to the UniverseJAN 2010 – The Winter Milky Way","author":"jperez1690","date":"December 18, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"The winter Milky Way is moving into view. Although it's not as bold as its summer counterpart, it still has much to offer the naked eye from a dark site. In the January issue of Astronomy Now, we'll look at some methods you can use to capture the Milky Way\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Article"","block_context":{"text":"Article","link":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/category\/article\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":515,"url":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/2009\/12\/11\/winter_milky_wa\/","url_meta":{"origin":390,"position":1},"title":"Winter Milky Way – Auriga to Canis Major","author":"jperez1690","date":"December 11, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Winter Milky Way","rel":"","context":"In "Constellation"","block_context":{"text":"Constellation","link":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/category\/constellation\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":248,"url":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/2006\/04\/28\/wide_field_cani\/","url_meta":{"origin":390,"position":2},"title":"Wide Field Canis Major Milky Way – November 6, 2005","author":"jperez1690","date":"April 28, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"20060428","rel":"","context":"In "Astro Photography"","block_context":{"text":"Astro Photography","link":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/category\/astro-photography\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":206,"url":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/2005\/10\/22\/m24\/","url_meta":{"origin":390,"position":3},"title":"Messier 24","author":"jperez1690","date":"October 22, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"M024","rel":"","context":"In "Messier"","block_context":{"text":"Messier","link":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/category\/messier\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":237,"url":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/2006\/02\/25\/ophiuchus_sagit\/","url_meta":{"origin":390,"position":4},"title":"Ophiuchus, Sagittarius, Scorpius Milky Way","author":"jperez1690","date":"February 25, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Ophiuchus, Sagittarius, Scorpius Milky Way","rel":"","context":"In "Constellation"","block_context":{"text":"Constellation","link":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/category\/constellation\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":444,"url":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/2008\/11\/24\/painting_orion\/","url_meta":{"origin":390,"position":5},"title":"Astronomy Art – Painting Orion at Cinder Hills Overlook","author":"jperez1690","date":"November 24, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Painting - Orion at Cinder Hills Overlook","rel":"","context":"In "Constellation"","block_context":{"text":"Constellation","link":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/category\/constellation\/"},"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\/390","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=390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}