{"id":11879,"date":"2014-06-19T01:00:32","date_gmt":"2014-06-19T11:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=11879"},"modified":"2013-12-20T15:15:01","modified_gmt":"2013-12-21T01:15:01","slug":"mercury-at-inferior-conjunction-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=11879","title":{"rendered":"Mercury at Inferior Conjunction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today the planet Mercury passes through <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=649\">inferior conjunction<\/a>, passing between the Sun and the Earth.  In a week or so the planet will again be visible in the dawn sky, climbing higher each day.  <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=649\">Maximum elongation<\/a> will occur July 12th.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<table border=\"1\" width=\"500\">\n<tr>\n<th colspan=\"6\">\n<h4>Mercury Events for 2014<\/h4>\n<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>&nbsp;<\/th>\n<th colspan=\"2\">Date UT<\/th>\n<th colspan=\"2\">Date HST<\/th>\n<th>Separation<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Maximum Elongation  <\/td>\n<td>Jan 31 <\/td>\n<td>09:59UT<\/td>\n<td>Jan 30 <\/td>\n<td>23:59HST<\/td>\n<td>18.4\u00b0E<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Inferior Conjunction<\/td>\n<td>Feb 15 <\/td>\n<td>20:13UT<\/td>\n<td>Feb 15 <\/td>\n<td>10:13HST<\/td>\n<td>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Maximum Elongation  <\/td>\n<td>Mar 14 <\/td>\n<td>05:59UT<\/td>\n<td>Mar 13 <\/td>\n<td>19:59HST<\/td>\n<td>27.6\u00b0W<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Superior Conjunction<\/td>\n<td>Apr 26 <\/td>\n<td>03:07UT<\/td>\n<td>Apr 25 <\/td>\n<td>17:07HST<\/td>\n<td>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Maximum Elongation  <\/td>\n<td>May 25 <\/td>\n<td>06:59UT<\/td>\n<td>May 24 <\/td>\n<td>20:59HST<\/td>\n<td>22.7\u00b0E<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Inferior Conjunction<\/td>\n<td>Jun 19 <\/td>\n<td>22:42UT<\/td>\n<td>Jun 19 <\/td>\n<td>12:42HST<\/td>\n<td>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Maximum Elongation  <\/td>\n<td>Jul 12 <\/td>\n<td>17:59UT<\/td>\n<td>Jul 12 <\/td>\n<td>07:59HST<\/td>\n<td>20.9\u00b0W<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Superior Conjunction<\/td>\n<td>Aug 8  <\/td>\n<td>16:05UT<\/td>\n<td>Aug 8  <\/td>\n<td>06:05HST<\/td>\n<td>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Maximum Elongation  <\/td>\n<td>Sep 21 <\/td>\n<td>21:59UT<\/td>\n<td>Sep 21 <\/td>\n<td>11:59HST<\/td>\n<td>26.4\u00b0E<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Inferior Conjunction<\/td>\n<td>Oct 16 <\/td>\n<td>20:32UT<\/td>\n<td>Oct 16 <\/td>\n<td>10:32HST<\/td>\n<td>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Maximum Elongation  <\/td>\n<td>Nov 1  <\/td>\n<td>11:59UT<\/td>\n<td>Nov 1  <\/td>\n<td>01:59HST<\/td>\n<td>18.7\u00b0W<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Superior Conjunction<\/td>\n<td>Dec 8  <\/td>\n<td>09:37UT<\/td>\n<td>Dec 7  <\/td>\n<td>23:37HST<\/td>\n<td>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"6\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"6\">Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov\/SKYCAL\/SKYCAL.html\" target=\"_blank\">NASA Sky Calendar<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fourmilab.ch\/images\/3planets\/elongation.html\" target=\"_blank\">Mercury Chaser&#8217;s Calculator<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"6\">\n<h4>&nbsp;<\/h4>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today the planet Mercury passes through inferior conjunction, passing between the Sun and the Earth. In a week or so the planet will again be visible in the dawn sky, climbing higher each day. Maximum elongation will occur July 12th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[45],"tags":[70,92],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11879"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=11879"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11881,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11879\/revisions\/11881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}