{"id":120,"date":"2008-02-21T13:09:18","date_gmt":"2008-02-21T13:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doctorross.co.za\/antarctica\/lunar-eclipseeclipsed"},"modified":"2008-02-21T13:17:28","modified_gmt":"2008-02-21T13:17:28","slug":"lunar-eclipseeclipsed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/?p=120","title":{"rendered":"Lunar eclipse&#8230;eclipsed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those in the know would have been outside in the wee hours of the morning today, to watch the lunar eclipse.\u00c2\u00a0 As we&#8217;re almost on the Greenwich Meridian, it was easier to stay up here at the base to catch the action.\u00c2\u00a0 Unfortunately, the weather didn&#8217;t play along.\u00c2\u00a0 The snow that had been falling throughout the day halted, but the skies remained overcast.\u00c2\u00a0 Unwilling to waste my wakefulness, I took the picture below with a 6 second exposure using the available light &#8211; this is as dark as it gets at the moment.\u00c2\u00a0 The prominent mountain is Lorentzenpiggen, with Grunehogna (site of an old SA field base) in the background.\u00c2\u00a0 The title?\u00c2\u00a0 Easy &#8211; &#8220;The Absence of Moon&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.doctorross.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/theabsenceofmoon.jpg\" title=\"Twighlight after midnight, with the clouds hiding the lunar eclipse\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.doctorross.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/theabsenceofmoon.jpg\" title=\"Twighlight after midnight, with the clouds hiding the lunar eclipse\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.doctorross.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/theabsenceofmoon.jpg\" alt=\"Twighlight after midnight, with the clouds hiding the lunar eclipse\" height=\"297\" width=\"445\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.doctorross.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/theabsenceofmoon.jpg\" title=\"Twighlight after midnight, with the clouds hiding the lunar eclipse\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.doctorross.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/theabsenceofmoon.jpg\" title=\"Twighlight after midnight, with the clouds hiding the lunar eclipse\"><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those in the know would have been outside in the wee hours of the morning today, to watch the lunar eclipse.\u00c2\u00a0 As we&#8217;re almost on the Greenwich Meridian, it was easier to stay up here at the base to catch the action.\u00c2\u00a0 Unfortunately, the weather didn&#8217;t play along.\u00c2\u00a0 The snow that had been falling throughout [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antarctica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}