{"id":839,"date":"2012-12-26T18:21:46","date_gmt":"2012-12-26T23:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/?p=839"},"modified":"2012-12-26T18:21:46","modified_gmt":"2012-12-26T23:21:46","slug":"wallpaper-wednesday-snow-at-esos-paranal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/?p=839","title":{"rendered":"Wallpaper Wednesday (Snow at ESO&#8217;s Paranal)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_840\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eso.org\/public\/images\/potw1132a\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-840\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-840 \" alt=\"Dark Sky and White Desert. Photo credit: ESO\/Yuri Beletsky\" src=\"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/potw1132a-300x209.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/potw1132a-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/potw1132a-1024x715.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/potw1132a.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-840\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dark Sky and White Desert. Photo credit: ESO\/Yuri Beletsky<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s difficult to find a snowy shot of the observatory at Cerro Paranal. The air is so dry in the Atacama Desert that precipitation is a rarity, even at the elevation of 2,600 meters (8,500 feet). In addition to the domes of the VLT, this wintry scene includes a satellite trail and a meteor trail. Such good fortune for a photographer!<\/p>\n<p>Right click on the image to download an image for your computer desktop (right sidebar of the ESO page).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s difficult to find a snowy shot of the observatory at Cerro Paranal. The air is so dry in the Atacama Desert that precipitation is a rarity, even at the elevation of 2,600 meters (8,500 feet). In addition to the domes of the VLT, this wintry scene includes a satellite trail and a meteor trail. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,7,8,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eso","category-instruments","category-observatories","category-wallpaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839","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=839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}