{"id":445,"date":"2007-01-11T12:10:51","date_gmt":"2007-01-11T12:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=445"},"modified":"2007-01-11T12:10:51","modified_gmt":"2007-01-11T12:10:51","slug":"comet-mcnaught","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=445","title":{"rendered":"Comet McNaught"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Incredible, I believe it&#39;s the first time I saw a live comet. I joined the AAA (Amateur Astronomers Association http:\/\/www.aaa.org) and we all saw it with our naked eyes. Not to mention that Brooklyn Heights Promenade has one of the best skyline view in the city. I still remember back in 1986 when my father took me to look for Hayley&#39;s Comet, none of us could find it. I wish my camera had not been broken. Nevertheless, James Shanks took a picture of it and here it is. Click for larger view.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/blog\/resserver.php?blogId=1&amp;resource=CometMcNaught.jpg\" title=\"Comet McNaught by James Shanks at Brooklyn Heights Promenade\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scholars.homeip.net\/blog\/resserver.php?blogId=1&amp;resource=CometMcNaught.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"01\/10\/2007 5:05pm Brooklyn Heights Promenade at the end of Montague Street, Comet McNaught by James Shanks. We all saw it with naked eyes. But I think it was around 25F, I can&#39;t feel myself on my way back to the Subway.\" width=\"415\" height=\"331\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>[@more@]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Incredible, I believe it&#39;s the first time I saw a live comet. I joined the AAA (Amateur Astronomers Association http:\/\/www.aaa.org) and we all saw it with our naked eyes. Not to mention that Brooklyn Heights Promenade has one of the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=445\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}