{"id":2652,"date":"2012-02-20T13:45:52","date_gmt":"2012-02-20T23:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=2652"},"modified":"2016-01-02T13:39:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-02T23:39:00","slug":"astronomy-basics","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=2652","title":{"rendered":"Astronomy Basics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A series of articles written for the beginner.  Astronomy can be dauntingly complex at the start.  Mastering the basics is not hard, you just have to get started somewhere&#8230;<\/p>\n<h4>Skills and Info<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=2200\">Finding Your Way in the Sky<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=6248\">Light-years, Light-minutes and Light-seconds<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=1552\">Degrees, Arc-Minutes and Arc-Seconds<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=735\">Magnitude<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=649\">Elongations, Conjunctions and Oppositions<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=1207\">Lunar Apogee and Perigee<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=9197\">Lahina Noon<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Observing<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=283\">Meteor Watching<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=11225\">Comet? Where?<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=5857\">Tracking the Aurora Borealis<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=12169\">Seeing Planets in the Daytime Sky<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=7485\">A Brief Guide to Public Observing<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Astrophotography<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=2236\">Afocal Photography<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=12621\">Star Trail Photography<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=12770\">Starscape Photography<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_650\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-650\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/ElongationOppositionConjunction.jpg\" alt=\"Elongation, opposition and conjunctions\" title=\"Elongation Opposition and Conjunction\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-full wp-image-650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/ElongationOppositionConjunction.jpg 600w, https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/ElongationOppositionConjunction-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 85vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-650\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elongation, opposition and conjunctions, the apparent positions of a planet with respect to the Earth<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A series of articles written for the beginner. Astronomy can be dauntingly complex at the start. Mastering the basics is not hard, you just have to get started somewhere&#8230; Skills and Info Finding Your Way in the Sky Light-years, Light-minutes and Light-seconds Degrees, Arc-Minutes and Arc-Seconds Magnitude Elongations, Conjunctions and Oppositions Lunar Apogee and Perigee &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=2652\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Astronomy Basics&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2579,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2652"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2652"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18005,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2652\/revisions\/18005"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}