{"id":1195,"date":"2020-10-05T07:40:06","date_gmt":"2020-10-05T12:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nekaal.org\/observer\/wp\/?p=1195"},"modified":"2020-10-05T07:40:06","modified_gmt":"2020-10-05T12:40:06","slug":"178p-comet-hug-bell-has-developed-a-longer-tail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nekaal.org\/observer\/wp\/index.php\/2020\/10\/05\/178p-comet-hug-bell-has-developed-a-longer-tail\/","title":{"rendered":"178P Comet (Hug-Bell) has developed a longer tail."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Here&#8217;s a picture of 178P taken with the .56 meter reflector at Sandlot Observatory.  Its a stack of 16 &#8211; 1 minute images taken the early morning of 10-5-20.    Each image was moved the distance and direction as the  comet in its motion against the star background. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"195\" height=\"186\" data-src=\"https:\/\/nekaal.org\/observer\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/0178P.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1193 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/nekaal.org\/observer\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/0178P.jpg 195w, https:\/\/nekaal.org\/observer\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/0178P-150x143.jpg 150w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 195px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 195\/186;\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"195\" height=\"186\" src=\"https:\/\/nekaal.org\/observer\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/0178P.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nekaal.org\/observer\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/0178P.jpg 195w, https:\/\/nekaal.org\/observer\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/0178P-150x143.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption>                                                                                                     178P   10-05-2020<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The comet has sprouted a wide tail about 25 arc-seconds long extending away from the coma.  The tails angle is about 260 P. A.  or just a bit south of due west.    The comet is at 17.7 V magnitude but isn&#8217;t going to get much brighter over the next few weeks, topping out about 17.5 V.   Its currently up 60 degrees by the beginning of dawn.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a picture of 178P taken with the .56 meter reflector at Sandlot Observatory. Its a stack of 16 &#8211; 1 minute images taken the early morning of 10-5-20. Each image was moved the distance and direction as the comet in its motion against the star background. The comet has sprouted a wide tail about &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nekaal.org\/observer\/wp\/index.php\/2020\/10\/05\/178p-comet-hug-bell-has-developed-a-longer-tail\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;178P Comet (Hug-Bell) has developed a longer tail.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nekaal.org\/observer\/wp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nekaal.org\/observer\/wp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nekaal.org\/observer\/wp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nekaal.org\/observer\/wp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nekaal.org\/observer\/wp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1195"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nekaal.org\/observer\/wp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1196,"href":"https:\/\/nekaal.org\/observer\/wp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195\/revisions\/1196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nekaal.org\/observer\/wp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nekaal.org\/observer\/wp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nekaal.org\/observer\/wp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}