{"id":469,"date":"2005-09-30T15:13:57","date_gmt":"2005-09-30T06:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jawingon.jet-okinawa.com\/?p=469"},"modified":"2005-09-30T15:17:00","modified_gmt":"2005-09-30T06:17:00","slug":"star-bright","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jawingon.jet-okinawa.com\/?p=469","title":{"rendered":"Star Bright"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well it looks like we are actually going to luck out with Longwang.  It has changed directions in the past day towards Taiwan.  Because of the monster storm I finally gained some experience with several applications.  The first being Google Earth and the current hurricane overlay.  On the other side of things, I became interested in what was available to the novice as far as star gazing.  I was able to locate two very interesting applications. One is a space similation named <a href= \"http:\/\/www.shatters.net\/celestia\/\">Celestia<\/a>.  This is sort of like viewing the universe in your own space craft for newbies.  The other program is <a href= \"http:\/\/www.southernstars.com\/\">SkyChartIII<\/a>.  Although this is not a new program, it is a great way for newbies to experience the constellations as viewed from Earth .  (The same company also offers an application for more advanced astronomers.) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well it looks like we are actually going to luck out with Longwang. It has changed directions in the past day towards Taiwan. Because of the monster storm I finally gained some experience with several applications. The first being Google Earth and the current hurricane overlay. On the other side of things, I became interested [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general2005","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jawingon.jet-okinawa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jawingon.jet-okinawa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jawingon.jet-okinawa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jawingon.jet-okinawa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jawingon.jet-okinawa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jawingon.jet-okinawa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jawingon.jet-okinawa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jawingon.jet-okinawa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jawingon.jet-okinawa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}