{"id":393,"date":"2003-11-14T21:07:34","date_gmt":"2003-11-15T00:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=393"},"modified":"2003-11-14T21:07:34","modified_gmt":"2003-11-15T00:07:34","slug":"stars-and-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=393","title":{"rendered":"Stars and snow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=dropcap>I<\/span> have been thinking about a couple of ideas which I&#8217;d like to round up: more or less in a hobby-like matter. For some kind of reason, those ideas remind me of the two starmaps I made when I was 15. With the help of a book, lots of cardboard, plastic, knife, pencil, pens and scissors I managed to make a 60 by 60 cm <em>moving<\/em> starmap (or was that a meter?). Each single star with a respectable magnitude was carefully drawn. Each (northern hemisphere) constellation was carefully lined out. Not to mention the different M-systems. Since I was bored and apparently my brother liked the idea of possessing a giant starmap, I made another one specifically for him. I think it took me a week to finish each of them and they still should be hanging in one of the rooms of my parents&#8217; house (if you read this Alfons: a picture of them would be appreciated). A remarkable achievement: the instructions for the moving part I found in a book, but the specific stars I looked up in encyclopedias (Winkler Prins) and other astronomical books.\n<\/p>\n<p>By any chance: if you&#8217;re living in Nova Scotia, you may just as well take a look out the window and watch the snow. First of the season. Prepare thy shovels and salt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been thinking about a couple of ideas which I&#8217;d like to round up: more or less in a hobby-like matter. For some kind of reason, those ideas remind me of the two starmaps I made when I was &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=393\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}