{"id":8597,"date":"2020-08-02T15:26:41","date_gmt":"2020-08-02T22:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/?p=8597"},"modified":"2021-03-06T14:22:02","modified_gmt":"2021-03-06T22:22:02","slug":"road-trip-day-13-stargazing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/2020\/08\/02\/road-trip-day-13-stargazing\/","title":{"rendered":"Road Trip Day 13: Turquoise Stargazing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you want to behold the wonders of the cosmos, it&#8217;s hard to beat sitting at 10,200 ft., far from the light &amp; atmospheric pollution of any big city. Leadville\u2014and specifically nearby areas like the beautiful Turquoise Lake\u2014provide just such an environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In past years Margot &amp; I have stopped by ourselves to stare up in awe, and this year we had the chance to bring along the lads &amp; the Wiggin crew. With a phalanx of lawn chairs in tow, we set up shop alongside the dam and took in the view, using phones to help locate planets and constellations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Check out <a href=\"https:\/\/photos.app.goo.gl\/UuadyqgNR5CmBqJQA\">our gallery from the evening<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"530\" height=\"398\" src=\"&quot;http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/SG0-1024x768.jpg&quot;&quot;\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8598\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/SG0-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/SG0-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/SG0-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/SG0.jpg 1060w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" \/><br>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"530\" height=\"398\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/SG1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8599\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/SG1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/SG1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/SG1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/SG1.jpg 1060w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to behold the wonders of the cosmos, it&#8217;s hard to beat sitting at 10,200 ft., far from the light &amp; atmospheric pollution of any big city. Leadville\u2014and specifically nearby areas like the beautiful Turquoise Lake\u2014provide just such an environment. In past years Margot &amp; I have stopped by ourselves to stare up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[36,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-colorado-2020","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8597"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8874,"href":"https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8597\/revisions\/8874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}