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\n– The observatory will be open to the public tomorrow for the eclipse. We are bringing telescopes.
\n– Sounds awesome!
\n– Wanna join us for a timelapse? Maybe of the crowd moving with flashlights?
\n– Hmm… what about the whole eclipse over the Acropolis?
\n– If you get to capture it, you’ll pretty much get an APOD.
\n– A what?<\/i><\/p>\n
This was the conversation (or its rough context) I had with colleague, friend and astronomy geek Evangelos Souglakos the day before the eclipse. After a bit of Stellarium, Google Maps, doorbells and puzzled stares (“Hi, I don’t sell anything. Can I use your roof tonight?”) a location was found.<\/p>\n
Then 10 days later the picture, Acropoclipse<\/a>, got an APOD<\/a>!<\/p>\n – The observatory will be open to the public tomorrow for the eclipse. We are bringing telescopes. – Sounds awesome! – Wanna join us for a timelapse? Maybe of the crowd moving with flashlights? – Hmm… what about the whole eclipse over the Acropolis? – If you get to capture it, you’ll pretty much get […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[50,55,53,52,7,51],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/auhopu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/auhopu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/auhopu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auhopu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auhopu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/auhopu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":387,"href":"https:\/\/auhopu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions\/387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/auhopu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auhopu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auhopu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"acropoclipse](\"http:\/\/img.auhopu.com\/blog\/20110625_way-cooler-than-an-ipod_02.jpg\" "\\"20110625_way-cooler-than-an-ipod_02\\"")
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