{"id":233,"date":"2025-12-10T17:32:42","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T04:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/petesi.me\/?p=233"},"modified":"2025-12-10T17:36:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T04:36:04","slug":"things-are-looking-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/petesi.me\/index.php\/2025\/12\/10\/things-are-looking-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Things are looking up"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today I received a little Christmas present I bought myself &#8211; a <a href=\"https:\/\/dwarflab.com\/en-nz\/pages\/dwarf-mini-smart-telescope\">Dwarf Mini Smart Telescope<\/a> and I promptly took an image of the sun. After giving the clouds a chance to disperse a little.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It seems that we&#8217;re going to have cloudy nights for roughly the next week, so you can blame me for that. But you can expect more astrophotography from me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/petesi.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/stacked_202512101417355669088405575852008930-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/petesi.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/stacked_202512101417355669088405575852008930-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/petesi.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/stacked_202512101417355669088405575852008930-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/petesi.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/stacked_202512101417355669088405575852008930-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/petesi.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/stacked_202512101417355669088405575852008930-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/petesi.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/stacked_202512101417355669088405575852008930.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I received a little Christmas present I bought myself &#8211; a Dwarf Mini Smart Telescope and I promptly took an image of the sun. After giving the clouds a chance to disperse a little.\u00a0 It seems that we&#8217;re going to have cloudy nights for roughly the next week, so you can blame me for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/petesi.me\/index.php\/2025\/12\/10\/things-are-looking-up\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Things are looking up&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,7,10],"tags":[12,34],"class_list":["post-233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astrophotography","category-photography","category-tech","tag-astrophotography","tag-the-sun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/petesi.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/petesi.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/petesi.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petesi.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petesi.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/petesi.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":236,"href":"https:\/\/petesi.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions\/236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/petesi.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petesi.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petesi.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}