{"id":11907,"date":"2014-01-01T01:00:42","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T11:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=11907"},"modified":"2014-01-01T21:42:06","modified_gmt":"2014-01-02T07:42:06","slug":"the-moon-and-venus-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=11907","title":{"rendered":"The Moon and Venus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A very thin crescent Moon will appear below Venus in the sunset this evening.  Look for a 1% illuminated crescent quite low, only about 10&deg; elevation at sunset.  Venus will be a bit higher, about 14&deg; above the setting Sun.<\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_12033\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12033\" style=\"width: 256px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=12033\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12033\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Venus20131224.jpg\" alt=\"Crescent Venus\" width=\"256\" height=\"256\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12033\" srcset=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Venus20131224.jpg 256w, https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Venus20131224-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 256px) 85vw, 256px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12033\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Venus approaching inferior conjunction, 24Dec2013<\/figcaption><\/figure>Tomorrow evening will see the Moon much higher than Venus, reaching an altitude of 22&deg; and waxing to 5% illumination.<\/p>\n<p>A telescope will reveal that Venus also shows a thin crescent phase, only 3% illuminated as it approaches inferior conjunction, passing between the Earth and the Sun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A very thin crescent Moon will appear below Venus in the sunset this evening. Look for a 1% illuminated crescent quite low, only about 10&deg; elevation at sunset. Venus will be a bit higher, about 14&deg; above the setting Sun. Tomorrow evening will see the Moon much higher than Venus, reaching an altitude of 22&deg; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=11907\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Moon and Venus&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[70,63,73],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11907"}],"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=11907"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12089,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11907\/revisions\/12089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}