{"id":2305,"date":"2013-10-17T05:35:27","date_gmt":"2013-10-17T13:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inspiringlandscapes.com\/blogimg\/?p=2305"},"modified":"2014-02-24T17:51:31","modified_gmt":"2014-02-25T01:51:31","slug":"photographing-the-heavens-monterey-astronomy-institute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inspiringlandscapes.com\/blogimg\/photographing-the-heavens-monterey-astronomy-institute\/","title":{"rendered":"Photographing the Heavens &#8212; Monterey Astronomy Institute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_2307\" style=\"width: 457px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/inspiringlandscapes.com\/blogimg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/MWayObservatoryClean2_MG_8763.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2307\" class=\" wp-image-2307  \" title=\"MIRA Observatory and Milky Way During Pleiades Party\" alt=\"MIRA Observatory and Milky Way During Pleiades Party\" src=\"https:\/\/inspiringlandscapes.com\/blogimg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/MWayObservatoryClean2_MG_8763-1024x786.jpg\" width=\"447\" height=\"343\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2307\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">MIRA Observatory and Milky Way During Pleiades Party<\/p><\/div>A photograph I made of our Milky Way and our local Observatory is on the cover of the new newsletter or\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mira.org\/\">our local Astronomy group <strong>Monterey Institute for Research in Astronomy<\/strong><\/a> (MIRA) . That brings me a smile.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mira.org\/newsletr\/NL_fall13web.pdf\">http:\/\/www.mira.org\/newsletr\/NL_fall13web.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Even better, it gives me a nice excuse to shine light on this <strong>marvelous organization that does world-class Astrophysics research<\/strong> as well as providing a <strong>steady drumbeat of <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mira.org\/education.htm\"><strong>high quality astronomy education<\/strong> for our Monterey Bay community<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Recent (all free) leading edge public lectures by the experts in their profession have covered <strong>Mars rovers<\/strong> (we learned about some discoveries before the media), <strong>Exo-Planets<\/strong>, <strong>Comets<\/strong>: NASA Deep Impact Mission and loads more intellectual mind raising topics.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MIRA also provides telescopes for the public<\/strong> so that recently we could all see the last <strong>Venus transit<\/strong> of the Sun in our lifetimes.<\/p>\n<p>Next time <strong>MIRA announces a lecture or a star party, you should join us.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Click on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mira.org\/\">MIRA.org<\/a> for more fascinating information<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A photograph I made of our Milky Way and our local Observatory is on the cover of the new newsletter or\u00a0our local Astronomy group Monterey Institute for Research in Astronomy (MIRA) . That brings me a smile. http:\/\/www.mira.org\/newsletr\/NL_fall13web.pdf Even better, it gives me a nice excuse to shine light on this marvelous organization that does&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[16,36,19,31,33,29,35,28,32,34,37,30],"class_list":["post-2305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-astronomy","tag-galaxy","tag-milky-way","tag-mira","tag-mira-observatory","tag-mira-variables","tag-monterey-bay","tag-monterey-institute-for-research-in-astronomy","tag-nasa-deep-impact-mission","tag-observatory-and-milky-way-during-pleiades-party","tag-party","tag-star"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspiringlandscapes.com\/blogimg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspiringlandscapes.com\/blogimg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspiringlandscapes.com\/blogimg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspiringlandscapes.com\/blogimg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspiringlandscapes.com\/blogimg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2305"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/inspiringlandscapes.com\/blogimg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2336,"href":"https:\/\/inspiringlandscapes.com\/blogimg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305\/revisions\/2336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspiringlandscapes.com\/blogimg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspiringlandscapes.com\/blogimg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspiringlandscapes.com\/blogimg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}