{"id":8192,"date":"2011-05-30T11:13:15","date_gmt":"2011-05-30T15:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/?p=8192"},"modified":"2011-05-30T11:13:15","modified_gmt":"2011-05-30T15:13:15","slug":"what-you-miss-when-you-dont-look-up-and-dont-stand-still","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/what-you-miss-when-you-dont-look-up-and-dont-stand-still\/","title":{"rendered":"What You Miss When You Don&#8217;t Look Up&#8230; and Don&#8217;t Stand Still"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At <a title=\"Popular Science: '...the Coolest Thing You'll See Today'\" href=\"http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/technology\/article\/2011-05\/time-lapse-video-very-large-telescope-work-coolest-thing-youll-see-today\" target=\"_blank\">the page at the <em>Popular Science<\/em> site<\/a> where I first saw this video, the author says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The video below was captured by Stephane Guisard and Jose Francisco Salgado at the European Southern Observatory\u2019s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile\u2019s Atacama Desert. And it might make you cry.<\/p>\n<p>What makes this time lapse particularly amazing &#8212; because we\u2019ve all seen plenty of time lapse videos of the night sky &#8212; is the four telescopes in the foreground. Watching these instruments work against a black background would be endlessly fascinating on its own. Unfortunately you won\u2019t be able to pay them too much attention. Because damn, what a sky.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><object width=\"499\" height=\"284\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/wFpeM3fxJoQ?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Yes. Damn. What a sky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the page at the Popular Science site where I first saw this video, the author says: The video below was captured by Stephane Guisard and Jose Francisco Salgado at the European Southern Observatory\u2019s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile\u2019s Atacama Desert. And it might make you cry. What makes this time lapse particularly amazing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","h5ap_radio_sources":[],"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[247,95,17,37],"tags":[2387,2388,2389,2390,2391,2392],"class_list":{"0":"post-8192","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-ruminations","7":"category-science-medicine","8":"category-04_technology","9":"category-onlineworld","10":"tag-european-southern-observatory","11":"tag-very-large-telescope","12":"tag-night-sky","13":"tag-astronomy","14":"tag-telescopes","15":"tag-time-lapse-video","16":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kZSG-288","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}