{"id":3566,"date":"2010-01-30T13:29:23","date_gmt":"2010-01-30T21:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thefreequark.com\/?p=3566"},"modified":"2010-01-30T13:29:23","modified_gmt":"2010-01-30T21:29:23","slug":"waiting-up-for-the-wolf-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/?p=3566","title":{"rendered":"Waiting Up for the Wolf Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ideal time to photograph a <a href=\"https:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/news\/2010\/01\/100129-biggest-full-moon-2010-mars\/\">Wolf Moon<\/a> is at moonrise, along the horizon, when the illusion of size will be greatest. At moonrise yesterday, we were socked in with drizzle, clouds and brume.<\/p>\n<p>Even though I missed the classic horizon shot, I still wanted a glimpse and capture of this Wolf &#8212; a near-full moon at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.moonconnection.com\/apogee_perigee.phtml\">perigee<\/a>, perigee being the moon&#8217;s closest point to the earth. These images are precisely what I saw, as the clouds masked Wolfie moon like a scrim, gaping from time to time to reveal his full splendor.<\/p>\n<p>This <a href=\"https:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/news\/2010\/01\/100129-biggest-full-moon-2010-mars\/\">National Geographic piece<\/a> describes the phenomenon of the Wolf Moon &#8211; with this year&#8217;s appearing 30 percent brighter and 14 percent larger, owing to its closer-than-usual proximity to earth.<\/p>\n<p><i>Click for bigger images. You&#8217;ll have to click through again to get to the largest size.<\/i><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ideal time to photograph a Wolf Moon is at moonrise, along the horizon, when the illusion of size will be greatest. At moonrise yesterday, we were socked in with drizzle, clouds and brume. Even though I missed the classic horizon shot, I still wanted a glimpse and capture of this Wolf &#8212; a near-full moon at perigee, perigee being the moon&#8217;s closest point to the earth. These images are precisely what I saw, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/?p=3566\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[373,11,1,42],"tags":[374],"class_list":["post-3566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-moon","category-photography","category-uncategorized","category-weather","tag-moons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}