{"id":184,"date":"2009-05-23T11:54:37","date_gmt":"2009-05-23T10:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.morbidcornflakes.ch\/thduggies_blog\/?p=184"},"modified":"2009-05-23T11:54:37","modified_gmt":"2009-05-23T10:54:37","slug":"it-really-has-rings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/2009\/it-really-has-rings","title":{"rendered":"It really has rings!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday evening, Janet and I went for a walk up the St. Margarethen hill behind our apartment and in the midst of a lively and most important discussion on whether one should ever push the clutch in a curve noticed that the gate to the observatory was open.\u00c2\u00a0 The sign behind the gate announced that every Friday from 20:00-22:00 the astronomy association of Basel (Astronomischer Verein Basel<\/a>) held public viewings.\u00c2\u00a0 We entered and first approached a large free-standing telescope, but were told to go inside the observatory because they too still hadn’t found what they were looking for.\u00c2\u00a0 Once we were in, we stood in line; Janet got to peek first.\u00c2\u00a0 Even without her glasses she could see the rings.\u00c2\u00a0 It was the first time for me to see Saturn, and a weird feeling to peek so far into the gloaming that the invisible should become visible.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s out there! it’s got a shape! it’s got rings!\u00c2\u00a0 Thinking back to how small it looked and to how big it really is, I get an inkling of how small I really am – especially considering that our solar system is only a small part of our galaxy, which is a small part of our universe…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday evening, Janet and I went for a walk up the St. Margarethen hill behind our apartment and in the midst of a lively and most important discussion on whether one should ever push the clutch in a curve noticed that the gate to the observatory was open.\u00c2\u00a0 The sign behind the gate announced that every Friday from 20:00-22:00 the astronomy association of Basel (Astronomischer Verein Basel) held public viewings.\u00c2\u00a0 We entered and first approached a large free-standing telescope, but were told to go inside the observatory because they too still hadn’t found what they were looking for.\u00c2\u00a0 Once we were in, we stood in line; Janet got to peek […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}