{"id":4099,"date":"2012-06-05T19:56:43","date_gmt":"2012-06-05T23:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/?p=4099"},"modified":"2012-06-25T14:06:38","modified_gmt":"2012-06-25T18:06:38","slug":"venus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2012\/06\/venus\/","title":{"rendered":"Venus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We tried to use my (very old) telescope to watch the <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5916183\/spectacular-time+lapse-video-of-venus-transit\">transit of Venus<\/a> earlier this evening. We dropped a UV filter from my camera in the end and covered the (white) reflection plate with black construction paper to try to tone down the intense sunlight, but even with all that&#8230;the pictures were not so great.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4101\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4101\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/20120605_venus1.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4101\" title=\"20120605_venus1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/20120605_venus1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/20120605_venus1.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/20120605_venus1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/20120605_venus1-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4101\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Our set-up on the driveway. The neighbors were probably wondering about us!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This is probably the best one &#8211; you can see a little &#8220;chip&#8221; where it&#8217;s just starting to cross in front of the sun.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4102\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4102\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/20120605_venus2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4102\" title=\"20120605_venus2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/20120605_venus2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/20120605_venus2.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/20120605_venus2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/20120605_venus2-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4102\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Really, the chip is there. Just past where 3:00 would be on a watch...<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Carolyn drew a chalk picture of what we were doing. \u00a0That came out much better!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4100\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4100\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/20120605_venus.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4100\" title=\"20120605_venus\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/20120605_venus.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/20120605_venus.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/20120605_venus-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4100\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This was what we *tried* to accomplish!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We tried to use my (very old) telescope to watch the transit of Venus earlier this evening. We dropped a UV filter from my camera in the end and covered the (white) reflection plate with black construction paper to try<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4099"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4113,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4099\/revisions\/4113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}