{"id":2176,"date":"2015-02-13T09:51:22","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T13:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=2176"},"modified":"2015-02-13T09:51:22","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T13:51:22","slug":"friday-13-february-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2015\/02\/13\/friday-13-february-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday, 13 February 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #000099; font-family: Arial;\">08:51 &#8211;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"> Friday the 13th falls on a Friday this month. Barbara&#8217;s recovery continues. She&#8217;ll continue practicing driving over the next few days before returning to work on Monday. I just got back from walking Colin. It&#8217;s 23F (-5C) with a stiff breeze.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Congratulations to our friend Steve Childers, who just completed the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.astroleague.org\/al\/obsclubs\/herschel\/hers400.html\">Herschel 400 list<\/a>. Barbara and I started working this list more than ten years ago, but quickly gave up on it. From our light-polluted region and using only a 10-inch telescope, it quickly became obvious that we had no chance at bagging all 400 objects on this list. Even the brighter objects were extremely difficult to see. Steve&#8217;s 17.5-inch telescope gave him a chance at bagging all 400 objects on the list, but even with three times the light gathering ability of our 10-inch it must have been extremely challenging, to put it mildly. But Steve&#8217;s persistence over the last ten years or so let him get it done. Steve joins a very small group of amateur astronomers who have successfully observed and logged all 400 of these objects.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"width: 65%; height: 3px; font-family: Arial;\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>08:51 &#8211; Friday the 13th falls on a Friday this month. Barbara&#8217;s recovery continues. She&#8217;ll continue practicing driving over the next few days before returning to work on Monday. I just got back from walking Colin. It&#8217;s 23F (-5C) with a stiff breeze.\n<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to our friend Steve Childers, who just completed the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.astroleague.org\/al\/obsclubs\/herschel\/hers400.html\">Herschel 400 list<\/a>. Barbara and I started working this list more than ten years ago, but quickly gave up on it.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2015\/02\/13\/friday-13-february-2015\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Friday, 13 February 2015 &nbsp;&raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-barbara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}