{"id":15134,"date":"2009-05-20T17:54:23","date_gmt":"2009-05-20T22:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=15134"},"modified":"2011-06-03T22:41:28","modified_gmt":"2011-06-04T02:41:28","slug":"backyard-astronomers-get-their-due","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/backyard-astronomers-get-their-due\/","title":{"rendered":"Backyard astronomers get their due"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you visited <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceweather.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">SpaceWeather.com<\/a> lately? This nifty site not only has a bunch of interesting news about our solar system, it offers a great feature that allows backyard astronomers to show off their chops.<\/p>\n<p>The SpaceWeather Sightings page features photos posted by astronomers from, quite literally, all over the world. Anyone with a telescope or camera (or both) pointed at the heavens who captures an interesting image can submit it to SpaceWeather. The Sightings page <a href=\"http:\/\/spaceweather.com\/submissions\/map.php\" target=\"_blank\">features a map<\/a> of the world with a pin in it at each astronomer&#8217;s location; mouse over the pin to see a small image, and click on the image to get a larger one.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, the Sightings page has images from the United States, Europe, Asia, and Australia. Many of them are time-lapse photos of the Space Station Freedom <a href=\"http:\/\/spaceweather.com\/submissions\/large_image_popup.php?image_name=Phillip-Chee-3520121603_8b30c281f9_b_1242013550_fl.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">taken from people&#8217;s yards<\/a>, although one <a href=\"http:\/\/spaceweather.com\/submissions\/large_image_popup.php?image_name=Paco-Bellido-ISS20090511_1242081553_fl.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Paco Bellido<\/a> from Cordoba, Spain, used high-power equipment to capture a (comparatively) up-close image of the station in orbit.<\/p>\n<p>The Moon and the Sun are also popular subjects on the Sightings page. If you have an image or three you&#8217;d like to share with other astronomy buffs, you can use the form SpaceWeather has posted on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceweather.com\/submissions\/index.php?PHPSESSID=ksrbtc5r7dn9ufrtncdj95qu14\" target=\"_blank\">this page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you visited SpaceWeather.com lately? This nifty site not only has a bunch of interesting news about our solar system, it offers a great feature that allows backyard astronomers to show off their chops. The SpaceWeather Sightings page features photos posted by astronomers from, quite literally, all over the world. Anyone with a telescope or &#8230; <a title=\"Backyard astronomers get their due\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/backyard-astronomers-get-their-due\/\" aria-label=\"More on Backyard astronomers get their due\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1402,1404,1405,1403],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15134"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}