{"id":2609,"date":"2013-03-04T09:10:20","date_gmt":"2013-03-04T14:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/?p=2609"},"modified":"2013-06-18T14:37:17","modified_gmt":"2013-06-18T18:37:17","slug":"stargazing-in-the-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/stargazing-in-the-winter\/","title":{"rendered":"Stargazing in the winter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2013\/03\/NightSky.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2610\" alt=\"NightSky\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2013\/03\/NightSky-150x150.jpg\" width=\"234\" height=\"234\" \/><\/a>I\u2019m fortunate enough to be part of a friendly walking group.\u00a0 We take evening walks in the winter to look at the stars.\u00a0 We usually take our walks in one of Montreal\u2019s beautiful nature parks, such as <a href=\"http:\/\/ville.montreal.qc.ca\/portal\/page?_pageid=175,4878367&amp;_dad=portal&amp;_schema=PORTAL&amp;nomPage=bt_parc_10\">P<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/ville.montreal.qc.ca\/portal\/page?_pageid=175,4878367&amp;_dad=portal&amp;_schema=PORTAL&amp;nomPage=bt_parc_10\">arc-Nature de l\u2019\u00cele-de-la-Visitation<\/a>, which is located on the north side of the island.\u00a0 We are able to enjoy the night sky, while being surrounded by trees, water, and white snow all around.\u00a0 The scene is spectacular.\u00a0 The next time you are out on a winter night, look up and see if you can recognize Orion, The Hunter.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC has some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/science\/space\/universe\/collections\/the_night_sky_winter#default\">brief video clips<\/a> on how to identify some interesting features of the winter night sky.\u00a0 For more details, take a look at Patrick Moore\u2019s book, <i><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org.proxy1.library.mcgill.ca\/10.1007\/978-1-4419-6409-0\">The sky at night<\/a><\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Image of Orion from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/herbraab\/5614479882\/\">H. Raab<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m fortunate enough to be part of a friendly walking group.\u00a0 We take evening walks in the winter to look at the stars.\u00a0 We usually take our walks in one of Montreal\u2019s beautiful nature parks, such as Parc-Nature de l\u2019\u00cele-de-la-Visitation, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/stargazing-in-the-winter\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[182,15],"class_list":["post-2609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-astronomy","tag-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2609"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3218,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2609\/revisions\/3218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}