{"id":818,"date":"2023-10-20T13:48:32","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T13:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/runeecho.com\/?p=818"},"modified":"2023-10-20T13:48:33","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T13:48:33","slug":"the-three-kings-of-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeecho.com\/the-three-kings-of-winter\/","title":{"rendered":"The Three Kings of Winter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n\n\n</p><p>A first look of the season at the 3 brilliant stars of Orion\u2019s Belt. From left to right in this image their names are Alnitak, Alnilam, and Mintaka. Seen in a consistently spaced line from our vantage point on Earth, Alnilam (the center star) is actually more than 700 lightyears further away than the others. It is by far the brightest, a supergiant that is 375,000 times more luminous than our own sun. Burning a brilliant blue, they are one of the most iconic and recognizable sights of our winter skies.\n\n\n\n</p><p>I captured this image with a short 15 second exposures over 15 minutes in natural colors as our eyes would see them including the surrounding nebulae if they were sensitive enough.\n\n\n\n</p><p>I hope you like it and have a great day!\n\n\n\n<figure class='\"wp-block-image' size-large><img decoding='\"async\"' loading='\"lazy\"' width='\"819\"' height='\"1024\"' src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/runeecho.com%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2023%5C/10%5C/IMG_1637-819x1024.jpeg%5C%22" alt='\"\"' class='\"wp-image-819\"' srcset='\"https:\/\/runeecho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_1637-819x1024.jpeg' https: sizes='\"(max-width:'>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class='\"mh-excerpt\"'><p>A first look of the season at the 3 brilliant stars of Orion\u2019s Belt. From left to right in this image their names are Alnitak, <a class='\"mh-excerpt-more\"' href="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/runeecho.com%5C/the-three-kings-of-winter%5C/%5C%22" title='\"The' three kings of winter>[&hellip;]\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":819,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeecho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeecho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeecho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeecho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeecho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/runeecho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":820,"href":"https:\/\/runeecho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818\/revisions\/820"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeecho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeecho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeecho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeecho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}</a></p></div></figure></p>