{"id":428,"date":"2026-07-09T10:15:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T16:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elvalleastronomers.org\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=428"},"modified":"2026-07-09T10:15:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T16:15:15","slug":"eva-star-party-saturday-7-11","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/elvalleastronomers.org\/index.php\/event\/eva-star-party-saturday-7-11\/","title":{"rendered":"EVA Star Party Saturday 7\/11"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\"><b>Date: <\/b>Saturday July 11 Star Party in Taos<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><b>Who<\/b>: This is a public event, so please share this announcement<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><b>Time:<\/b> 9:00 pm<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><b>Location:<\/b> Rio Grande del Norte Cascabel trailhead @ end of CR 110 in Taos<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><b>Directions:<\/b> From Highway 68, turn onto County Route 110 and drive west. Continue on CR 110 until it ends at Rio Grande del Norte parking lot. <b>Please turn off your headlights in advance<\/b> and be mindful that bright lights will hinder viewing.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><b>What can be seen:<\/b><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">We can aim telescopes directly toward the core of the Milky Way. Earth is located on one of the outer spirals of our galaxy,\u00a0 approximately 25,000 to 30,000 light-years from the core. Sagittarius A is a black hole at the core center.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Other objects of interest:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>(1.) Scorpius has some notable, bright clusters:<\/li>\n<li>M4 and M80, globular clusters near Antares<\/li>\n<li>M6 and M7, open clusters near the tail of the scorpion<\/li>\n<li>(2.) Sagittarius has over a dozen globular clusters. Explain that we are seeing these objects at varying distances between Earth and the galaxy core:<\/li>\n<li>M22 &#8211; bright globular cluster<\/li>\n<li>M8 &#8211; Lagoon Nebula, an open cluster inside a nebula,<\/li>\n<li>M20 &#8211; Trifid Nebula<\/li>\n<li>M24 Star Cloud &#8211; a giant cloud of stars, larger than most clusters and with more stars. Astronomers speculate whether the cloud broke off gravitationally from one of the spiral arms.<\/li>\n<li>M17 &#8211; Swan or Checkmark Nebula<\/li>\n<li>M16 &#8211; Eagle Nebula. If use the 30&#8243; scope with a UHC filter in its eyepiece, we can probably see the Pillars of Creation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date: Saturday July 11 Star Party in Taos Who: This is a public event, so please share this announcement Time: 9:00 pm Location: Rio Grande del Norte Cascabel trailhead @ &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/elvalleastronomers.org\/index.php\/event\/eva-star-party-saturday-7-11\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;EVA Star Party Saturday 7\/11&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[45,47,46,44],"tribe_events_cat":[31],"class_list":["post-428","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","hentry","tag-astronomy","tag-astrophotography","tag-dark-sky","tag-star-party","tribe_events_cat-club-star-party","cat_club-star-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elvalleastronomers.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elvalleastronomers.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elvalleastronomers.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elvalleastronomers.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elvalleastronomers.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":429,"href":"https:\/\/elvalleastronomers.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/428\/revisions\/429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elvalleastronomers.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elvalleastronomers.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elvalleastronomers.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}