{"id":1119,"date":"2017-08-31T12:14:39","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T16:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/?p=1119"},"modified":"2017-10-11T12:20:07","modified_gmt":"2017-10-11T16:20:07","slug":"3122-florence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/?p=1119","title":{"rendered":"3122 Florence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes I think successful observing is all a matter of confidence. I go through this same sequence every time I look for some moving target: an asteroid, a dim planet, a comet. I study the starfield, sketch what I see, but nearly always convince myself I&#8217;m looking in the wrong place because the field doesn&#8217;t look quite right. Well, there&#8217;s a reason it doesn&#8217;t look right, and that reason is either a comet, an asteroid, or a dim planet. My first view of Uranus or Neptune in the fall? I have to starhop over and over to the field because something seems off. Find a comet? Same thing. Finding an asteroid? Same deal. It took me forever to believe I was really seeing Florence. Not sure why I don&#8217;t just trust my eyes.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1120\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Florence.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1120\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1120\" src=\"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Florence-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Florence-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Florence-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Florence-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Florence-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1120\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Asteroid 3122 Florence, viewed from Metrowest, August 30, 2017, 15\u00d770 binos. <i>Image: JR<\/i><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes I think successful observing is all a matter of confidence. I go through this same sequence every time I look for some moving target: an asteroid, a dim planet, a comet. I study the starfield, sketch what I see, but nearly always convince myself I&#8217;m looking in the wrong place because the field doesn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94,70,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asteroids","category-binoculars","category-observing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}