{"id":924,"date":"2008-07-11T04:45:26","date_gmt":"2008-07-11T04:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=924"},"modified":"2008-07-11T04:45:26","modified_gmt":"2008-07-11T04:45:26","slug":"astronomy-in-queens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=924","title":{"rendered":"Astronomy in Queens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nAt a small tennis field called Memorial Fields, the best place I am aware of in Queens to do star gazing.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nJust a few hours ago, I went and got a better concept of the Ecliptic line, Equatorial and Azimuthal grides.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI realized that at the poles, besides having the Sun for 6 alternative months, one would see the Sun go round and round in circles in the sky every day. As it nears the end of the 6th month, the Sun's &quot;aerial orbit&quot; will expand closer and closer to the horizon until the orbit finally sets under the horizon, and darkness roams for 6 months.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI have been annoyed by the constant precipitation after sunset and before sunrise. Could this be caused by the sea around my area? Do I only have to be a night owl all the time to do this?\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI shall keep detailed periodic reports under here from now on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a small tennis field called Memorial Fields, the best place I am aware of in Queens to do star gazing. Just a few hours ago, I went and got a better concept of the Ecliptic line, Equatorial and Azimuthal &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=924\">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":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924","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=924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}