{"id":112359,"date":"2019-01-24T02:31:19","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T07:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=112359"},"modified":"2019-01-24T02:31:25","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T07:31:25","slug":"eclipse-weather-conditions-challenging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2019\/01\/24\/eclipse-weather-conditions-challenging\/","title":{"rendered":"Eclipse weather conditions challenging"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The lunar eclipse January 20was certainly a spectacular event.\u00a0Rising in the east-northeast, the moon tracked almost overhead by midnight. Its total eclipse occurred shortly after that.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A photo of the eclipse earlier this week by Rex Dolby.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Conditions to photograph the event were mixed.\u00a0The sky was clear, which was good, but my thermometer registered 6 degrees below zero, which was brutal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to the cold air, my metal tripod soaked up that cold. Any movement I made of it transferred that chill to my fingers. If I were several years younger, I would be looking for a carbon fiber tripod. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

To add insult to the chill, I failed to record any extra time for the two NFL playoff games. I watched them between checks on the eclipse, but since both went into overtime, I didn\u2019t see the end of either game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I watched outstanding eclipse photos on TV Monday morning. Although I may have achieved an acceptable picture, it didn\u2019t come close to those on the morning news.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oh well, there will be another chance on May 26, 2021 — if my equipment and I last that long. Through it all, I\u2019m thankful that at least I got to witness the event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The lunar eclipse January 20was certainly a spectacular event.\u00a0Rising in the east-northeast, the moon tracked almost overhead by midnight. Its total eclipse occurred shortly after that.\u00a0 Conditions to photograph the event were mixed.\u00a0The sky was clear, which was good, but my thermometer registered 6 degrees below zero, which was brutal. In addition to the cold […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cameraclub"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-31 14:30:17","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}