{"id":2425,"date":"2016-05-28T11:58:18","date_gmt":"2016-05-28T10:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.astronom.cz\/horalek\/?p=2425"},"modified":"2016-05-28T12:22:59","modified_gmt":"2016-05-28T11:22:59","slug":"pilgrims-of-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/?p=2425","title":{"rendered":"Pilgrims of Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2429\" style=\"width: 398px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/2016_04_04_Pilgrims_of_Mars_1500px.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2429\" src=\"http:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/2016_04_04_Pilgrims_of_Mars_1500px-728x1024.png\" alt=\"Pilgrims of Mars\" width=\"388\" height=\"546\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2429\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/2016_04_04_Pilgrims_of_Mars_1500px-728x1024.png 728w, https:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/2016_04_04_Pilgrims_of_Mars_1500px-213x300.png 213w, https:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/2016_04_04_Pilgrims_of_Mars_1500px-768x1081.png 768w, https:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/2016_04_04_Pilgrims_of_Mars_1500px-520x732.png 520w, https:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/2016_04_04_Pilgrims_of_Mars_1500px.png 1066w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 388px) 100vw, 388px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2429\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pilgrims of Mars<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Atacama_Desert\" target=\"_blank\">Atacama Desert<\/a> of Chile is sometimes called &#8220;the Mars landscape on Earth&#8221;. And this image can pretty much show why. When <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twanight.org\/newTWAN\/photographers_about.asp?photographer=Babak%20A.%20Tafreshi\" target=\"_blank\">Babak Tafreshi<\/a> (left) and me arrived on 4th April 2016 in the deep desert, I just went outside of the car and couldn&#8217;t breath for a while. I was so thrilled of the view around, slightly illuminated by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eso.org\/public\/images\/potw1616a\/\" target=\"_blank\">morning crescent Moon<\/a>, that I only stood close to the car and enjoyed the magic of this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/52632-atacama-desert-flowers-bloom.html\" target=\"_blank\">wonderful wasteland<\/a>. And up above us all the Universe was almost literally on touch. By the way, the <a href=\"http:\/\/spaceweathergallery.com\/index.php?title=mars\" target=\"_blank\">real Mars<\/a> is the brightest orange star close to the center of the image, only a month and half before its <a href=\"http:\/\/mars.nasa.gov\/allaboutmars\/nightsky\/mars-close-approach\/\" target=\"_blank\">great opposition of 2016<\/a>. Used Canon 6D Baader IR modified, Samyang 24 mm, f2.0, ISO 10000, 23&#215;15 seconds + 20&#215;25 seconds panorama, longer expositions of sky view tracked by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vixen-astronomie.de\/produkte\/polarie-star-tracker\/\" target=\"_blank\">Vixen Polarie mount<\/a>, tripod.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Atacama Desert of Chile is sometimes called &#8220;the Mars landscape on Earth&#8221;. And this image can pretty much show why. When Babak Tafreshi (left) and me arrived on 4th April 2016 in the deep desert, I just went outside of the car and couldn&#8217;t breath for a while. I was so thrilled of the&hellip; <br \/> <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/?p=2425\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2429,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1,12],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-2425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-landscape","category-milky-way","category-zodiacal-light-and-gegenschein","tag-people-and-the-universe"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}