{"id":16,"date":"2009-01-12T20:21:29","date_gmt":"2009-01-12T20:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/2009\/01\/12\/january_12\/"},"modified":"2009-01-12T20:21:29","modified_gmt":"2009-01-12T20:21:29","slug":"january_12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/2009\/01\/12\/january_12\/","title":{"rendered":"January 12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The moon is a harsh mistress.&nbsp; It&#8217;s also famously difficult to photograph.&nbsp; It&#8217;s so much smaller in the frame than you expect, and despite the fact that it&#8217;s dark out, the moon is in direct sunlight, so it&#8217;s quite easy to overexpose.&nbsp; It&#8217;s also moving fairly fast, so tends to drift out of your carefully-composed frame.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight&#8217;s moon is supposedly larger than usual due to being close to perigee, and so I figured it was a good candidate for today&#8217;s photo.<\/p>\n<p>I have an old manual-focus 500mm <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mir.com.my\/rb\/photography\/companies\/nikon\/nikkoresources\/6070nikkor\/reflex\/500mm.htm\">reflex lens<\/a> for my camera.&nbsp; I attempted this shot a couple years ago with my old camera, but the new one has a few technical advances that make this lens easier to use.&nbsp; Even with this extreme focal length (equivalent to 15x binoculars), today&#8217;s photo is cropped.<br \/><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.parkercat.org\/doug_project_365\/assets_c\/2009\/01\/DCL_2722-70.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.parkercat.org\/doug_project_365\/assets_c\/2009\/01\/DCL_2722-thumb-512x341-70.jpg\" alt=\"DCL_2722.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-none\" width=\"512\" height=\"341\" \/><\/a><\/span> <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The moon is a harsh mistress.&nbsp; It&#8217;s also famously difficult to photograph.&nbsp; It&#8217;s so much smaller in the frame than you expect, and despite the fact that it&#8217;s dark out, the moon is in direct sunlight, so it&#8217;s quite easy to overexpose.&nbsp; It&#8217;s also moving fairly fast, so tends to drift out of your carefully-composed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/2009\/01\/12\/january_12\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;January 12&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/doug365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}