{"id":1996,"date":"2012-05-21T08:47:29","date_gmt":"2012-05-20T23:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2012-05-21\/1996"},"modified":"2012-05-21T08:47:29","modified_gmt":"2012-05-20T23:47:29","slug":"the-eclipse-from-kyoto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2012-05-21\/1996","title":{"rendered":"The Eclipse from Kyoto"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<div class='resize_warning' id='arw1996'>\n<b>NOTE<\/b>: Images with an <img class='raw' width='19' height='18' src='\/i\/s\/red_zoomup.gif'\/> icon next to them have been artificially shrunk to better fit your screen; click the icon to restore them, in place, to their regular size.\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class='ic'><a name=\"114170\" href='\/i\/JF7_114170.jpg'\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JF7_114170_sm.jpg\" width=\"690\" height=\"500\"\nalt=\"Third Contact as seen in Kyoto, Japan using a filter that cuts 99,999 \/ 100,000 of the light  --  Copyright 2012 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\nid=\"i114170\"\ntitle=\"Third Contact as seen in Kyoto, Japan using a filter that cuts 99,999 \/ 100,000 of the light  --  Copyright 2012 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/><span class=\"camera-info robots-nocontent\">Nikon D700 + Nikkor 300mm f\/2 + 1.4X TC @ 420mm cropped &mdash; <sup>1<\/sup><big>\/<\/big>1600 sec, <span class='f'>f<\/span>\/11, ISO 1000 &mdash;\n<a href='\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FJF7_114170.jpg'>map &amp; image data<\/a> &mdash; <a href='\/blog\/proximity\/i\/JF7_114170.jpg'>nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n<br\/><span class='caption'>Third Contact<\/span>\n<br\/>as seen in Kyoto, Japan\n<br\/>using a filter that cuts <sup>99,999<\/sup>\/<sub>100,000<\/sub> of the light\n<\/div>\n\n<div class='ic'><a name=\"114224\" href='\/i\/JF7_114224.jpg'\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JF7_114224_sm.jpg\" width=\"690\" height=\"503\"\nalt=\"Starry Night? exaggerated refractions in the clouds using a filter that cuts 3,199 \/ 3,200 of the light  --  Kyoto, Japan  --  Copyright 2012 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\nid=\"i114224\"\nphotostream=\"misc\"\ntitle=\"Starry Night? exaggerated refractions in the clouds using a filter that cuts 3,199 \/ 3,200 of the light  --  Kyoto, Japan  --  Copyright 2012 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/><span class=\"camera-info robots-nocontent\">Nikon D700 + Nikkor 70-200mm f\/2.8 @ 200mm cropped &mdash; <sup>1<\/sup><big>\/<\/big>250 sec, <span class='f'>f<\/span>\/6.3, ISO 320 &mdash;\n<a href='\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FJF7_114224.jpg'>map &amp; image data<\/a> &mdash; <a href='\/blog\/proximity\/i\/JF7_114224.jpg'>nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n<br\/><span class='caption'>Starry Night?<\/span>\n<br\/>exaggerated refractions in the clouds\n<br\/>using a filter that cuts <sup>3,199<\/sup>\/<sub>3,200<\/sub> of the light\n<\/div>\n\n<p>We had a nice view of the annular ('ring-shaped') eclipse from Kyoto this morning. <span class='nobr'>We are on<\/span> the edge of the shadow's path, so\nthe view for us was of the moon skirting the edge of the sun. <span class='nobr'>We had only<\/span> 100 seconds of ring. (Folks in Tokyo got five minutes.)\n<span class='nobr'>I took<\/span> <span class='nobr'>a bunch<\/span> of pictures, but don't know whether anything came out. Will look through them later. <span class='nobr'>At the moment<\/span> (an hour later),\nthe sun still has <span class='nobr'>a small<\/span> bite out of it, getting smaller by the minute.<\/p>\n\n<p><i><a href='\/blog\/2012-05-21\/1997' class='quiet'>Continued here...<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had a nice view of the annular ('ring-shaped') eclipse from Kyoto this morning. We are on the edge of the shadow's path, so the view for us was of the moon skirting the edge of the sun. We had only 100 seconds of ring. (Folks in Tokyo got five minutes.) I took a bunch of pictures, but don't know whether anything came out. Will look through them later. At the moment (an hour later), the sun still has a small bite out of it, getting smaller by the minute.<\/p> <p>Continued here...<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2,26,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}