{"id":1284,"date":"2026-02-02T13:32:38","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T13:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.astro.me.uk\/?p=1284"},"modified":"2026-08-26T14:10:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T14:10:22","slug":"after-a-3-month-break-due-to-medical-issues-back-to-astronomy-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astro.me.uk\/?p=1284","title":{"rendered":"Astro missing for 3 months?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><em>After a 3 month break due to medical issues back to astronomy work!!<\/em><\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"> I am pleased I met with such a friendly and mutually supportive group of fellow patients: John, Kelly, Martin &#8230;&#8230;  Helped on the dark days! <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">I have to say, all the staff in the linear accelerator team at QA hospital were great and kept our spirits up. <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Relaxing Selsey Calm Video\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XI-7rryzQDU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-white-color\">Calm message to you all from Selsey<\/mark><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\"><strong>I will need to give the telescope a once over and clean.  Then back to my stars!!<\/strong><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.astro.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/M51Colour.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"819\" src=\"http:\/\/www.astro.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/M51Colour-1024x819.jpg\" alt=\"M51\" class=\"wp-image-668\" srcset=\"https:\/\/astro.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/M51Colour-1024x819.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/astro.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/M51Colour-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/astro.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/M51Colour-768x614.jpg 768w, https:\/\/astro.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/M51Colour-150x120.jpg 150w, https:\/\/astro.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/M51Colour-400x320.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 980px) 100vw, 980px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">M51 2X300sec per colour<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a 3 month break due to medical issues back to astronomy work!! I am pleased I met with such a friendly and mutually supportive group of fellow patients: John, Kelly, Martin &#8230;&#8230; Helped on the dark days! I have to say, all the staff in the linear accelerator team at QA hospital were great [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/astro.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/astro.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/astro.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astro.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astro.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1284"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/astro.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1354,"href":"https:\/\/astro.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284\/revisions\/1354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/astro.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astro.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astro.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}