{"id":34825,"date":"2011-05-01T15:42:52","date_gmt":"2011-05-01T15:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/fly-me-past-the-moon-bad-astronomy\/"},"modified":"2011-05-01T15:42:52","modified_gmt":"2011-05-01T15:42:52","slug":"fly-me-past-the-moon-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/fly-me-past-the-moon-bad-astronomy.php","title":{"rendered":"Fly me past the Moon | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&rsquo;ve spent a lot of time &mdash; a <em>lot<\/em> &mdash; observing the Moon. I include using my naked eye, binoculars, and telescopes of all sizes (including <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2010\/04\/23\/happy-20th-anniversary-hubble\/3\/\">Hubble<\/a>, come to think of it) over many years, since I was a kid.<\/p><p>And in all that time, I&rsquo;ve never had the good fortune to see <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/18523889\">something like this<\/a>:<\/p><p>Tom Guilmette took this video at Fenway Park in 2010, and I&rsquo;m not jealous of his good timing <em>at all<\/em>. Really. I&rsquo;m <em>not<\/em>.<\/p><p>Dammit.<\/p><p><em>Tip o&rsquo; the oxygen mask to Ronnie Harris.<\/em><\/p><p> <em><\/em><\/p><p>Related posts:<\/p><p>- <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2010\/12\/30\/when-natural-and-artificial-moons-align\/\">When natural and artificial moons align<\/a><br>- <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2010\/05\/26\/two-solar-iss-transits\/\">Two solar ISS transits<\/a><br>- <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2010\/06\/01\/claire-de-lune\">Claire de lune<\/a><br>- <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2011\/01\/21\/squishy-moonrise-seen-from-space\/\">Squishy Moonrise seen from space<\/a><\/p><p><\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/lEYxTfNXdh6hig--MCsm7CKrYu4\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/27b65_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/lEYxTfNXdh6hig--MCsm7CKrYu4\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/27b65_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/27b65_gxoNxisDWBE\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/27b65_SERkoVvJNHA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&rsquo;ve spent a lot of time &mdash; a lot &mdash; observing the Moon. I include using my naked eye, binoculars, and telescopes of all sizes (including Hubble, come to think of it) over many years, since I was a kid.And &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/fly-me-past-the-moon-bad-astronomy.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34825"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}