{"id":509,"date":"2016-09-25T22:07:42","date_gmt":"2016-09-25T22:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.10.99\/KES\/?p=509"},"modified":"2016-09-29T11:00:26","modified_gmt":"2016-09-29T11:00:26","slug":"a-photo-to-get-you-to-think-about-light-and-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kandrsmith.org\/KES\/index.php\/2016\/09\/25\/a-photo-to-get-you-to-think-about-light-and-physics\/","title":{"rendered":"A photo to get you to think about light and physics"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"iridis-rsmith\"<\/p>\n

I am always proud of my hubby, Robert, and especially now, as he combined his love of photography (a special hobby of his) and astronomy and went one step forward and created something new to start conversations.<\/p>\n

Did you know he won the Insight Astrophotographer of the Year 2016<\/a> award for the special category Robotic Scopes<\/a>?<\/p>\n

He was trying to convey\u00a0not just the beauty of spectra (spreading light into different colors), but how much it can tell us about the object we are observing (what it’s made of, what’s going on, etc.).<\/p>\n

He used data from a public archive of\u00a0the Liverpool Telescope, a 2-meter robotic telescope on island of La Palma in the Canaray Islands, and combined imagery and spectra \u00a0to show off the beauty and the physics of two commonly photographed planetary nebulae (both readily seen from northern hemispheres): Cats Eye Nebula (NGC 6543 in Draco) and the Ring Nebula (M57 in Lyra).<\/p>\n

Artistically arranged to show the colors of the rainbow, which helped inspire us to name the piece Iridis<\/em>, which is latin for rainbow.<\/p>\n

Nice writeup at the Liverpool Telescope website can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am always proud of my hubby, Robert, and especially now, as he combined his love of photography (a special hobby of his) and astronomy and went one step forward and created something new to start conversations. Did you know he won the Insight Astrophotographer of the Year 2016 award for the special category Robotic … Continue reading A photo to get you to think about light and physics<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"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":[11],"tags":[31,40],"class_list":["post-509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","tag-astronomy","tag-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kandrsmith.org\/KES\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kandrsmith.org\/KES\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kandrsmith.org\/KES\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kandrsmith.org\/KES\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kandrsmith.org\/KES\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kandrsmith.org\/KES\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kandrsmith.org\/KES\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kandrsmith.org\/KES\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kandrsmith.org\/KES\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}